奇怪，等了兩天，都沒看到有人分享美國司法部的這則新聞?
我個人覺得美國官方公示中國用官方網路水軍進行資訊戰的細節，
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分享原文與機翻如下
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/34-officers-peoples-republic-china-national-police-charged-perpetrating-transnational
34 Officers of People’s Republic of China National Police Charged with Perpetrating Transnational Repression Scheme Targeting U.S. Residents
Monday, April 17, 2023
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York
Today, a complaint was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging 34 officers of the national police of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) – with harassing Chinese nationals residing in the New York metropolitan area and elsewhere in the United States. The defendants allegedly perpetrated transnational repression schemes targeting U.S. residents whose political views and actions are disfavored by the PRC government, such as advocating for democracy in the PRC. All the defendants are believed to reside in the PRC, and they remain at large.
Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Matthew G. Olsen, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Security Division; Kurt Ronnow, Acting Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Counterintelligence Division (FBI), and David Sundberg, Assistant Director-in-Charge, FBI, announced the charges.
“As alleged, the Chinese government deploys an elite task force of its national police—the 912 Special Project Working Group—as a troll farm to attack Chinese dissidents in our country for exercising free speech in a manner that the PRC government disfavors, and spread disinformation and propaganda to sow divisions within the United States,” stated United States Attorney Peace. “I commend the investigative team for comprehensively revealing the insidiousness of a state-directed criminal scheme directed at residents of the United States.”
“These cases demonstrate the lengths the PRC government will go to silence and harass U.S. persons who exercise their fundamental rights to speak out against PRC oppression, including by unlawfully exploiting a U.S.-based technology company,” stated Assistant Attorney General Olsen. “These actions violate our laws and are an affront to our democratic values and basic human rights.”
“China’s Ministry of Public Security used operatives to target people of Chinese descent who had the courage to speak out against the Chinese Communist Party – in one case by covertly spreading propaganda to undermine confidence in our democratic processes and, in another, by suppressing U.S. video conferencing users’ free speech,” stated FBI Acting Assistant Director Ronnow. “We aren’t going to tolerate CCP repression – its efforts to threaten, harass, and intimidate people – here in the United States. The FBI will continue to confront the Chinese government’s efforts to violate our laws and repress the rights and freedoms of people in our country.”
“These cases demonstrate that the Chinese Communist Party, once again, attempted to intimidate, harass, and suppress Chinese dissidents in the United States,” stated FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Sundberg. “In the U.S., the freedom of speech is a cornerstone of our democracy, and the FBI will work tirelessly to defend everyone’s right to speak freely without fear of retribution from the CCP. These complex investigations revealed an MPS-wide effort to repress individuals by using the U.S. communications platform and fake social media accounts to censor political and religious speech.”
As alleged, the officers are or were assigned to a task force called the “912 Special Project Working Group” (the Group) and worked out of an MPS facility in Beijing. The purpose of the Group is to influence and shape public perceptions of the PRC government, the CCP, and its leaders in the United States and around the world. The Group carries out this mission by using a host of accounts created under false names on multiple social media platforms to promote narratives that portray the PRC government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in a favorable light, while criticizing and attacking their perceived adversaries, including the United States, and Chines pro-democracy activists located throughout the world, including in the United States. As alleged, the defendants carried out this mission in part through a campaign of threats, harassment and intimidation directed at critics of the PRC government and the CCP in the United States and around the world.
The complaint alleges that members of the Group created thousands of fake online personas on social media sites, including Twitter, to target Chinese democracy activists and critics of the CCP through online harassment and threats. These online personas also disseminate official PRC government propaganda and narratives to counter and overwhelm the critical speech of the Chinese activists. The topics of the propaganda and official narratives are directed by MPS headquarters, and have included the advantages of the PRC’s CCP-dominated political system over democracy, U.S. domestic and foreign policy, human rights issues in Hong Kong and Xinjiang Province, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic.
As further alleged, the investigation has obtained a policy guide issued to new Group members for detailing how to create and maintain fake social media accounts through temporary email addresses; posting official PRC government content; and interacting with other online users to avoid the appearance that the Group accounts are “flooding” a given social media platform.
Some of these online personas purport to be U.S. persons, giving U.S. users of social media platforms the false impression that individuals located in the United States advocate positions and policies favored by the PRC government and the CCP. The Group tracks the performance of the MPS officers assigned to the Group and rewards Group members who successfully operate multiple online personas without detection by the social media companies who host the platforms or by other users of the platforms.
The investigation has also uncovered official MPS directions to Group members to compose articles and videos based on certain themes targeting, for example, the activities of Chinese pro-democracy activists located abroad or the policies of the U.S. government. As alleged, the Group executed a standing order from MPS headquarters to harass a well-known critic of the PRC government and the CCP (“Victim-1”) by using a host of Group-controlled social media accounts to, among other things, make death threats and demand that U.S. authorities arrest Victim-1.
In addition, Group members took repeated affirmative actions to have Chinese dissidents and their meetings interfered with on the platform of Company-1. For example, Group members disrupted a pro-democracy activist’s efforts to commemorate the Tiananmen Square Massacre through a videoconference meeting by posting threats against the participants through the platform’s chat function. In another Company-1 videoconference on the topic of countering communism organized by a Chinese pro-democracy activist, Group members flooded the videoconference and drowned out the meeting with loud music and vulgar screams and threats directed at the pro-democracy participants.
The charges in the complaint are allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
The government’s case is being handled by the Office’s National Security and Cybercrime Section. Assistant United States Attorneys Alexander A. Solomon, Ian C. Richardson, Nicholas J. Moscow, and Jessica K. Weigel of the Eastern District of New York with assistance from Trial Attorney Scott A. Claffee of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, are in charge of the prosecution.
The FBI has created a website for victims to report efforts by foreign governments to stalk, intimidate, or assault people in the United States. If you believe that you are or have been a victim of transnational repression, please visit https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/transnational-repression.
機翻:
今天，布魯克林聯邦法院開封了一項指控，指控中華人民共和國（PRC）國家警察——公安部（MPS）——的 34 名警官騷擾居住在紐約大都會地區和其他地方的中國公民在美國。據稱，被告實施了針對政治觀點和行為不受中國政府支持的美國居民的跨國鎮壓計劃，例如在中國倡導民主。據信，所有被告都居住在中國，而且他們仍然在逃。
Breon Peace，美國紐約東區檢察官；Matthew G. Olsen，司法部國家安全部助理檢察長；聯邦調查局反情報司 (FBI) 代理助理局長 Kurt Ronnow 和 FBI 助理局長 David Sundberg 宣布.
“據稱，中國政府部署了其國家警察的精英特遣隊——912 特別項目工作組——作為一個巨魔農場，攻擊我國持不同政見者以中國政府不喜歡的方式行使言論自由，並傳播虛假信息和宣傳在美國內部播下分裂的種子，”美國檢察官皮斯說。“我讚揚調查小組全面揭示了針對美國居民的國家指導犯罪計劃的陰險性。”
助理檢察長奧爾森表示：“這些案件表明，中國政府將不遺餘力地壓制和騷擾行使基本權利反對中國壓迫的美國人，包括非法利用一家美國科技公司。” “這些行為違反了我們的法律，是對我們民主價值觀和基本人權的侮辱。”
“中國公安部利用特工針對敢於公開反對中國共產黨的華裔人士——在一個案例中，通過暗中散佈宣傳破壞對我們民主進程的信心，在另一個案例中，通過壓制美國視頻會議用戶的言論自由，”FBI 代理助理主任 Ronnow 說。“我們不會容忍中共在美國的鎮壓——它威脅、騷擾和恐嚇人民的努力。聯邦調查局將繼續對抗中國政府違反我們的法律並壓制我們國家人民的權利和自由的努力。”
“這些案件表明，中國共產黨再次企圖恐嚇、騷擾和鎮壓在美國的中國異議人士，”聯邦調查局助理局長桑德伯格說。“在美國，言論自由是我們民主的基石，聯邦調查局將不懈努力捍衛每個人自由發言的權利，而不用擔心遭到中共的報復。這些複雜的調查揭示了整個公安部通過使用美國通信平台和虛假社交媒體賬戶來審查政治和宗教言論來壓制個人的努力。”
據稱，這些官員正在或曾被分配到一個名為“912 特別項目工作組”（“小組”）的工作組，並在北京的公安部設施中工作。該集團的目的是影響和塑造公眾對中國政府、中共及其在美國和世界各地的領導人的看法。該集團通過在多個社交媒體平台上使用大量以假名創建的賬戶來執行這一使命，以宣傳對中國政府和中國共產黨（CCP）有利的敘述，同時批評和攻擊他們認為的對手，包括美國在內，以及遍布世界各地（包括美國）的中國民主活動人士。據稱，被告部分地通過威脅行動執行了這項任務，
投訴稱，該組織的成員在包括 Twitter 在內的社交媒體網站上創建了數千個虛假的在線角色，通過在線騷擾和威脅來針對中國民主活動人士和批評中共的人士。這些在線角色還傳播中國政府的官方宣傳和敘述，以反駁和壓倒中國活動人士的批評言論。宣傳和官方敘述的主題由公安部總部指導，包括中國共產黨主導的政治制度相對於民主的優勢、美國的內外政策、香港和新疆的人權問題、俄羅斯入侵烏克蘭，喬治·弗洛伊德 (George Floyd) 被謀殺和 COVID-19 大流行之後的內亂。
據進一步稱，調查已獲得發給新集團成員的政策指南，詳細說明如何通過臨時電子郵件地址創建和維護虛假社交媒體賬戶；發布中國政府官方內容；與其他在線用戶互動，以避免出現集團賬戶“淹沒”特定社交媒體平台的情況。
其中一些在線角色聲稱是美國人，給社交媒體平台的美國用戶一種錯誤印象，即位於美國的個人倡導中國政府和中共青睞的立場和政策。該集團跟踪分配給該集團的公安部官員的表現，並獎勵成功操作多個在線角色而沒有被託管平台的社交媒體公司或平台的其他用戶發現的集團成員。
調查還發現公安部官方指示小組成員根據特定主題撰寫文章和視頻，例如針對海外中國民主活動人士的活動或美國政府的政策。據稱，該集團執行了公安部總部的一項常規命令，通過使用一系列由集團控制的社交媒體賬戶來騷擾一位著名的中國政府和中共批評者（“受害者 1”），其中包括：發出死亡威脅並要求美國當局逮捕 Victim-1。
此外，小組成員多次採取平權行動，讓中國持不同政見者和他們的會議在公司-1 的平台上受到干擾。例如，小組成員通過平台的聊天功能對與會者發出威脅，擾亂了一位親民主活動人士通過視頻會議紀念天安門廣場大屠殺的努力。在另一場由一位中國民運人士組織的關於反共主題的視頻會議中，小組成員淹沒了視頻會議，並用嘈雜的音樂和粗俗的尖叫聲淹沒了會議，並威脅了民主派參與者。
投訴中的指控是指控，而 被告是除非並直到被證明有罪，否則假定無罪。
政府的案件由該辦公室的國家安全和網絡犯罪科處理。助理美國 律師紐約東區的 Alexander A. Solomon、Ian C. Richardson、Nicholas J. Moscow 和 Jessica K. Weigel 在國家安全部反情報和出口管制科的出庭律師 Scott A. Claffee 的協助下負責檢方的。
FBI 已經為受害者創建了一個網站，以報告外國政府在美國跟踪、恐嚇或攻擊人民的行為。如果您認為自己是或曾經是跨國鎮壓的受害者，請訪問https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/transnational-repression。
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