Commentary In China, WeChat has become an indispensable tool for 1.2 billion of the country’s 1.4 billion people. Need to transfer money? Use WeChat. Need to book a doctor’s appointment? Use WeChat. Need to order a taxi? Use WeChat. Need to message a friend? Use WeChat. The “super-app,” as you can see, is used for everything imaginable. Not surprisingly, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) uses WeChat to spy on Chinese citizens. After all, data is power. The more of it you have, the easier it is to detect patterns and irregularities. In China, information gleaned through social media monitoring is used to control the people and punish those who step out of line. Sadly, this type of monitoring is not restricted to communist nations. In fact, right now, it’s happening in one of the United States’ most populated cities. Los Angeles Lurkers Eighty percent of Americans have zero trust in …
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