U.S. experts pointed out that WeChat is a serious security threat, and it is also a means for China to monitor and coerce overseas citizens to obey its ideology, calling for a complete ban on WeChat.

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[Compile Lu Yongshan/Comprehensive Report] Fearing that the international version of TikTok, the international version of the Chinese short video and video social program "Douyin", will steal user information, 14 US state governments have banned TikTok, and members of Congress are also planning to legislate to block TikTok.

Experts pointed out that when all walks of life in the United States lock on TikTok, another Chinese social media "Trojan horse" WeChat (WeChat) should not be ignored.

Arthur Herman, a senior researcher at the Washington think tank "Hudson Institute", wrote an article on the "Forbes" magazine website on the 3rd, pointing out that former US President Trump signed an executive order in 2020 to ban TikTok, WeChat also includes Inside; while WeChat is not as psychologically threatening as TikTok, which has intrusive algorithms, it could pose a greater risk because it allows the Chinese government to directly access data on U.S. users.

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Beijing Surveillance Users Automatically Censor Chat Graphics

WeChat has 1.2 billion users worldwide, most of them in China, and it is one of the few social media that can be used both inside and outside of China.

The Chinese government monitors the images and texts posted by users on WeChat, and also censors content it dislikes.

In 2020, Citizen Lab, an information security research institute at the University of Toronto, Canada, discovered that WeChat automatically censored chat images in real time through text and visual recognition, duplicate file detection, etc. image, immediately blocks all users from sending that image.

All U.S. users’ personal information exposed to serious security threats

At present, there are 1.3 million WeChat users in the UK, 1.5 million in the US, and about 600,000 in Australia. Most users use WeChat to contact relatives and friends in China, but the Beijing authorities can learn their locations through various backdoors. and other personal information, and allow third parties to read the messages they send and receive.

Heman pointed out that WeChat is a serious security threat, and it is also a means for China to monitor and coerce overseas citizens to obey its ideology. He called for a complete ban on WeChat. People are out of Xi Jinping's ideological control.