News Analysis
Beijing is systematically mining the world’s social media data—including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube—to better understand political opinions and elite networks, and to compile a list of foreign targets.
Thinking About China
Opinion
China Targets Western Elites Through Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube
Journalists, academics, and politicians need better protections: cut off Beijing's access to foreign servers
Logos of Google, Facebook, and Twitter on a computer screen in a file photo taken on Oct. 21, 2020. Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images
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Anders Corr
Author
Anders Corr has a bachelor’s/master’s in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea” (2018).
