James Raussen

Managing Director, FDI, Cross-Cultural Issues, Healthcare, (all things Southeast Asia, Bourbon, English Literature), Native Ohioan.

[UnveiledChina @Unveiled_ChinaX]

A careless code blunder just blew the lid off Beijing’s multi-million dollar AI propaganda operation targeting the West. France's digital interference watchdog, Viginum, has officially exposed "Fawn Mianju," a covert network of 13 multilingual fake news sites running on advanced automation and generative AI. The sophisticated network was completely compromised after a computer engineer working as a Senior Project Manager at China's state-run CGTN Digital accidentally left his login credentials exposed in the code.

This operation, which expanded on findings first uncovered by U.S. cybersecurity firm Graphika in 2025, operated with deep financial backing. The domains were registered in Beijing, hosted on Alibaba Cloud, and utilized expensive infrastructure alongside paid plugins to artificially manipulate search engine rankings. Using digital keys linked directly to AI language models, the network automatically scraped CGTN articles, lightly rewrote them, and republished over 2,300 articles, often within less than an hour of the original state media broadcast.

Sites like the French-language "Actu Méridien" were weaponized to manipulate public opinion across 89 countries, heavily targeting Western audiences and Francophone African youth. The articles aggressively peddled pro-Beijing narratives, painting China as the undisputed leader of the Global South and green energy transition while explicitly telling Western readers that aligning with Chinese interests would bring them massive benefits.

Despite the cutting-edge tech and heavy state funding, the operation was an organic flop. The articles struggled to breach 15,000 views, with nearly 40 percent of its top social media engagement traced back to fake accounts in Burundi whose sole purpose was to artificially inflate the content. While the reach was limited, French authorities warn that the operation exposes Beijing’s rapidly escalating capability to launch fully automated, stealth disinformation campaigns designed to quietly erode Western democratic alignment.

#Disinformation #CyberSecurity #France #China #AIPropaganda #Geopolitics #Viginum #NationalSecurity

[James Raussen @JamesRaussen]

@TaiwanSpecial Nothing like positive reinforcement from Asian adults. 😅

[James Raussen @JamesRaussen]

@PeebsPoker @jubileemedia @RubinReport

[James Raussen @JamesRaussen]

@victorywiilcome @3rdwavemedia @patrick_oshag You’re so ridiculous I can’t take a word you say seriously. Just anger and no rational arguments.

#1 GDP US, most Fortune 500 companies US. Most billionaires US, largest military US, most top universities in the world U.S.

Don’t let facts get in your way 😆🤣

[James Raussen @JamesRaussen]

@victorywiilcome @3rdwavemedia @patrick_oshag If they were that popular, other countries would flock there, but why not? Are the universities racist? Can’t be that. Then why if so successful?

[James Raussen @JamesRaussen]

@victorywiilcome @3rdwavemedia @patrick_oshag You believe everything that’s printed?!? 😆 or just things that fit your narrative. When Harvard gets caught cheating it’s real, but when it happens somewhere else it’s fake?! Unbelievable the world you live in.

[James Raussen @JamesRaussen]

😆🤣🫣 hilarious. A Chinese Australian full of wumao spirit. Can you walk and chew gum?

Germany lead in technology in 1937, didn’t work out so well. Technology research means nothing unless implemented properly.

The ASPI paper is a call for more western funding you dimwit. A defense organization wanting more cash. Did you buy your degree?

[James Raussen @JamesRaussen]

@victorywiilcome @3rdwavemedia @patrick_oshag Insults with no facts. Kids. 😄

[UnveiledChina @Unveiled_ChinaX]

The raw reality of China’s commercial dog meat industry has been exposed in a disturbing video out of Yulin, Guangxi, capturing the brutal methods used to handle these animals.

The unedited footage shows a facility worker methodically treating dogs for parasites using a harsh chemical dipping process. Armed with a long pole and a neck noose, a woman forcefully hoists a struggling black dog into a large vat of diluted phoxim—a toxic organophosphate insecticide used in Chinese agriculture to kill mites and ticks. For nearly twenty seconds, the animal thrashes in terror, gasping for air as it is repeatedly dunked and agitated in the chemical bath before being pulled back out by its neck toward a long row of crowded wire-mesh cages.

While Beijing frequently downplays the dog meat trade to global audiences, this footage captures the standard, industrialized reality of the Yulin supply chain.

#UnveiledChina #YulinDogMeat #AnimalWelfare #ChinaFarming #DogMeatTrade #ConsumerSafety

[James Raussen @JamesRaussen]

@YerGonnaLive @3rdwavemedia @patrick_oshag How much do you get paid for each reply? I hope it’s worth it. 😆

[James Raussen @JamesRaussen]

@21cakeater @3rdwavemedia @patrick_oshag It’s hilarious that you hide behind a cake 🍰 symbol and I should take you seriously 😆

[James Raussen @JamesRaussen]

Nice conjecture. Zero depth to your statement. It’s a hugely collectivist culture that can’t let go of its old paradigms. Mass demographic decline, zero uniquely creative innovation, and max exodus of cash disguised as foreign investment. A property sector that has massive surpluses.

[Antonello Guerrera @antoguerrera]

Former Ferrari chairman Montezemolo tears the new electric Ferrari “Luce” apart:

“I cannot say what I really think: I would harm Ferrari. We risk the destruction of a legend. So sorry. Take the Prancing Horse off. At least the Chinese won’t copy this car”

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Carlos Whittaker did a 7.5-week no-screen experiment and the results are wild.

No phone. No TV. No laptop. No watch. Nothing. He even got his brain scanned before and after by a neuroscientist.

The outcome? His cerebellum healed years worth of damage in just seven weeks. His cognitive memory score jumped from the 50th percentile to the 99th percentile of adult men in America. He said he felt like a completely different human, sharper, clearer, more alive.

This one stopped me in my tracks. I’ve been feeling the scroll fatigue hard lately, and hearing someone actually measure the difference with real brain scans is next-level motivating.

Our constant screen exposure might be doing more quiet damage to our brains than we realize. Sometimes the simplest reset (doing less) creates the biggest upgrade.

Have you ever done a serious digital detox? Would you try one this extreme?

[James Raussen @JamesRaussen]

@henrysgao @BaldingsWorld @Brad_Setser @SanderTordoir One of your best summaries so far!

[Bulvar Medya @Bulvarpress]

Normalde 250 euroya satılan İsviçre menşeili “ON” ayakkabı markasının, Çin’deki bir fabrikada yaklaşık 8 euroya mal edilip paketlendiği öne sürülen görüntüler paylaşıldı.

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Big corporations realizing the HR department is just inventing problems to justify solving them

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Life without HR at your company.

[James Raussen @JamesRaussen]

@En_Plein_Aire @mtracey Quit with the condescending self righteous jargon. Do I care about anything you say at all with that language?? Seriously, please be a bit or paid activist, because you are shameful. You piece of trash.