Reddit Hit With MASSIVE Hack, Reeks Of Chinese PsyOp Day After Trump Bans TikTok And NUKES Tencent
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🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
The hack plastered weird Chinese pro Trump messages all over Reddit.
Democrats and Republicans both agree that TikTok is dangerous and in various forms have banned its use in government but Trump dropped the hammer last night banning TikTok AND WeChat.
The banning of WeCHat also seems to have hit Tencent which owns or has stakes in many US companies and could send shock waves across the internet
Could this have been retaliation for Trump's action against Chinese companies?
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| 0:00.0 | Earlier today, several different forums, subreddits on one of the most popular social media websites |
| 0:06.1 | Reddit were hacked to display a weird second language pro-Trump message littered with emojis |
| 0:13.2 | and Chinese characters, and no one really knows who did it or why, but it affected inactive |
| 0:19.9 | moderators for various subreddits who got hacked and then this access was used to plaster pro-Trump |
| 0:25.3 | messages across many different subreddits. In my personal opinion, it looks like some kind of |
| 0:32.3 | sigh up. It could very well be pro-Trump, anti-Trump. It could be pro-Trump people in Hong Kong. I |
| 0:37.8 | honestly have no idea. But we are seeing something interesting. There are many Trump supporters who |
| 0:42.7 | are cheering for the display of a pro-Trump message, although there are also many Trump supporters |
| 0:47.1 | saying it looks like a manipulation by Chinese hackers, and there are many people on Reddit who |
| 0:51.9 | quite literally believe Donald Trump supporters put up Chinese pro-Trump messages in order to |
| 0:58.5 | encourage them to vote for Donald Trump. I've got some images of this to show you and go through |
| 1:03.6 | this, but all of this is happening. The day after Donald Trump signed two executive orders, |
| 1:09.4 | targeting TikTok and WeChat with a essentially what is a ban, giving his company's 45 days to |
| 1:16.6 | divest from their Chinese connections, otherwise they're out. One of these executive orders, |
| 1:22.3 | the one pretending to WeChat, also mentions Tencent. This led to widespread fears among many people, |
| 1:28.7 | because Tencent actually has holdings in many other American companies, including Reddit. That's |
| 1:35.2 | right. Tencent invested $150 million last year into Reddit, and now many people fear that this |
| 1:41.7 | executive order will interfere with things like WeChat, Reddit, Spotify, etc. Now, the White |
| 1:47.6 | House is clarified. This won't affect those companies, but nonetheless, this might be some kind of |
| 1:54.3 | retaliation or response. So let's go through all the news, man. What Trump just did with these |
| 2:00.7 | executive orders was like a figurative economic tactical nuke on China, hurting them severely, |
| 2:08.1 | and there's good reason to do it. Giving our private information to a foreign adversary like China, |
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