![]() ![]() “So what the Chinese government has done by shutting down the Prime Minister’s account is effectively foreign interference in our democracy and in an election year,” Senator Paterson told 2GB. He most notably used it in 2020 to respond to China’s Foreign Ministry “slurring” of Australian troops over war crimes allegations, although Chinese censors blocked the message at that time.Ĭhair of Parliament’s intelligence committee, Senator James Paterson, said no Australian politician should be on WeChat if it censored the PM, including Opposition leader Anthony Albanese. 10 saying it acted on behalf of the Prime Minister, and requesting the account be. Mr Morrison had used the account to communicate in Mandarin directly to Chinese Australian voters, a crucial political constituency in several swing seats. The agency handling Morrison's social media account lost access to it last July, and emailed WeChat on Jan. The issue was first reported by Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper. The cyber squatters have effectively gained access to the 76,000 subscribers Mr Morrison had accrued and renamed the account “Australian Chinese new life”.Īmid tensions between Canberra and Beijing, Mr Morrison lost control of his account in July and his staff have tried fruitlessly, as recent as January 10, to regain control. Mr Morrison’s media team, like many other people and organisations based outside of China, used a Chinese agency to register the account. “Tencent is committed to upholding the integrity of our platform and the security of all users accounts, and we will continue to look into this matter.” “Based on our information, this appears to be a dispute over account ownership - the account in question was originally registered by a PRC individual and was subsequently transferred to its current operator, a technology services company - and it will be handled in accordance with our platform rules,” the company said in a statement. ![]() Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s WeChat account was taken over and rebranded. WeChat’s owner, Tencent, on Monday night issued a statement saying it was investigating the apparent “hijacking” of Mr Morrison’s account. Australia may be forced into banning the popular Chinese social media application WeChat after Prime Minister Scott Morrison was blocked from accessing his account, cyber experts say. ![]()
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