The troll group's presence included 1,000 Instagram accounts with about 49,000 followers between them, as well as 45 accounts on Facebook, according to Meta. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss rather than her actual page. Cyber Front Z also appears to have directed followers to a long-abandoned Facebook fan page for U.K. Meta concluded in its report that Cyber Front Z hadn't "succeeded in rallying substantial authentic support online as part of this operation." The report details failures by the group, despite calls on Telegram, to get any comments onto the accounts of the Finnish prime minister or the actor Morgan Freeman. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Diane and his puppy, Luna. David is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Contemporary China, a Member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and a Truman National Security fellow. In 2019, David joined Protocol's parent company and in 2020, launched POLITICO's widely-read China Watcher. Thereafter, he was Entrepreneur in Residence at the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, which owns the Philadelphia Inquirer. David then served as Senior Editor for China at Foreign Policy magazine, where he launched the first Chinese-language articles in the publication's history. After four years working on international deals for top law firms in New York and Hong Kong, David co-founded Tea Leaf Nation, a website that tracked Chinese social media, later selling it to the Washington Post Company. He also hosts POLITICO's China Watcher newsletter.
David is a widely cited China expert with twenty years' experience who has served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in China, founded and sold a media company, and worked in senior positions within multiple newsrooms. IPOs due to regulatory pressure include fitness tech company Keep, medical data company LinkDoc Technology and podcasting platform Ximalaya FM.ĭavid Wertime is Protocol China's former executive director. Following DiDi's market debut, the Cyberspace Administration of China began an investigation into its data security and ordered it to halt new user registrations in China.Īccording to reporting by the Financial Times, other Chinese tech companies who have delayed, reconsidered or canceled U.S. The firm, worth at least $180 billion per a recent funding round, was mulling an offering in the United States or Hong Kong but paused after Chinese officials asked the company to look into data security risks, the Journal reports.īyteDance's path offers a marked contrast with ride-hailing giant DiDi, which reportedly went ahead with an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange in early July after being urged by the country's Cyberspace Administration not to proceed. According to reporting from The Wall Street Journal, Chinese tech giant ByteDance decided to delay its much-anticipated IPO earlier this year at the urging of regulators in Beijing.