Bluesky Should Outsmart China's Public Opinion Monitoring Tools to Safeguard Public Discourse
The Chinese government has leveraged public opinion analysis systems to target U.S. social media platforms to tamper with public discourse in the past. Will Bluesky be included? most likely yes.
This post is authored by guest contributor Eugenio Benincasa, a senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich).In a November 26 post on the microblogging social networking service Bluesky, Alex Stamos, the Chief Information Security Officer for the cybersecurity company SentinelOne, highlighted several key points about how People’s Republic of China (PRC) leverages US social media platforms, such as X, for influence operations. Stamos made the following points:
Many underestimate the extent of the PRC's efforts at influencing the U.S. social media landscape;
The erosion of Trust and Safety at X has turned the platform into a “playground for PRC actors”;
Although PRC-affiliated actors complain about users moving from X to Bluesky, that platform too could also prove fertile ground for Chinese influence operations.
China has long used X to drive influence campaigns, leveraging its user base and algorithms to amplify na…
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