“WeChat is the most popular communications platform in the world for Chinese speakers.” Those are the words of Johns Hopkins professor Seth Kaplan. This is important mainly because Kaplan contends that which is the “most popular communications platform” is also “a preferred vehicle for China’s Communist Party to steal data, censor, propagandize, and spread disinformation in the U.S.”
If we ignore how flattered the members of the CCP must be at the brilliance ascribed to them by paranoid members of academia, it’s useful to point out that Kaplan can’t have it both ways. Particularly someone like Kaplan who, as evidenced by the where of his opinion piece about WeChat (the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal), seemingly caucuses with the American Right. Really, since when are commercial arms of government so effective, and so skillful at meeting the needs of consumers?
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