Steve R.
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While we vigorously focus on Twitter, there is a "new" story emerging that potentially has significant effects on managing the news.
Probably not.
The Chinese Communist Party tries to gobble up Forbes media - Washington Examiner
Concerns are growing on Capitol Hill over an agreement that would see a company with links to the Chinese Communist Party take ownership of Forbes Global Media Holdings. The sale price is a vast $630 million. In a letter on Sunday to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Rep. Michael Waltz asked...
www.washingtonexaminer.com
Will those on the "left" aggressively rise-up to prevent this acquisition of a media platform that could easily spread "disinformation"?China's intention seems pretty clear. The CCP wants to use a very thinly veiled corporate cutout to buy Forbes and then use it as a Western media platform to advance the party's interests. Considering that the party's central U.S. interest rests on the expansion of political, economic, and military space for Chinese global hegemony, let's hope Secretary Yellen heeds Waltz's concerns. After all, do we really want Peng using Forbes to educate us about the Uyghurs?
Probably not.