China's national security minister rates fake news among most pressing cyber threats

Chinese minister for national security Chen Yixin has penned an article rating the digital risks his country faces and rated network security incidents as the most realistic source of harm to the Chinternet – both in terms of attacks and the dissemination of fake news. The article appeared in China Cyberspace, the official …

[Khaptain]

Coming from the top

And what's most worrying of all is when the Government itself is the provider of the fake news.

Here in the west it's no better.

[A random security guy]

Re: Coming from the top

I am curious why you say the the governments in the west are no better.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Coming from the top

Tell us you're just trying to bait the OP?

No one is seriously that naive about western governments except maybe illiterate western liberals?

[DS999]

If China can't stop fake news

Despite its heavy handed control over what its citizens can access and can post, there's no hope for the rest of us.

Or maybe this is an excuse to give them a reason to initiate even tighter control over what its citizens can access and can post...

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: If China can't stop fake news

part of their problem is that they don't consider propaganda (lies for political manipulation) any different than real news, while trying to tell people to stop with fake news.

If it wasn't for the cruelty, it would be funny.

[Clausewitz4.0]

Re: If China can't stop fake news

"If it wasn't for the cruelty, it would be funny."

Can't cruelty be funny, sometimes? Like when hunting and eviscerating an animal to prepare the meal.

[amanfromMars 1]

How very Zen/Sun Tzu/Tao. And whenever TIA Compatible is it a Great AI Game Changer too, on Steroids

Or as minister Chen put it, after machine translation: "The internet has increasingly become the source, conductor, and amplifier of various risks. A small incident can become a whirlpool of public opinion. Some rumors can easily turn a 'storm in a teacup' into a 'tornado' in real society."

One has to be impressed and applaud and laud whatever machine is responsible for that transalation if the accuracy and veracity of what Chinese minister for national security Chen Yixin thinks to say is correctly reported in an alien tongue.

If faultless, he certainly appears to know exactly what he is talking about regarding the challenges and opportunities which are in abundance up ahead in the future to both crush and overwhelm unworthy opposition and competition stuck in the past and reward true epic heroes of long valuable enlightening marches preparing the present for virtual realisation of attractive addictive products/productions/programs.

And that would undoubtedly be tantamount China being way out ahead leading the future with secret works in the pipeline no one yet knows anything about.

Bravo, China. The West salutes you and requests such almighty aid as you are free to give and be generously paid for/graciously and gratefully rewarded.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: How very Zen/Sun Tzu/Tao.

AI written post?

over emphasis on long words. over complimentary, while supporting dictatorship.

The doomed future is now.