Paul Mozur,
Paul Mozur is a global technology correspondent based in Taipei who has written about technology and politics in Asia from Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Seoul. He was part of the team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Since joining The New York Times in 2014, he has covered China's tech boom, the geopolitics of semiconductors, online disinformation in Myanmar aiding a genocide, Russian censorship, and the global spread and abuse of AI-powered surveillance technologies in western China, South America, and the Middle East. Before The Times, he worked at The Wall Street Journal and The Standard. He grew up in Pennsylvania, graduated from Dartmouth College with a double major in English literature and East Asian studies, and has lived or studied in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Myanmar (Burma), Malaysia, Singapore, Since joining The New York Times in 2014 as a global technology correspondent based in Taipei, Paul Mozur has covered China's tech boom and the geopolitics of semiconductors. He was part of the team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Mozur has also written about online disinformation in Myanmar aiding a genocide, Russian censorship, and the global spread and abuse of AI-powered surveillance technologies in western China, South America, and the Middle East. Before joining The Times, he worked at The Wall Street Journal and The Standard. Mozur grew up in Pennsylvania, Before joining The New York Times in 2014 as a global technology correspondent based in Taipei, Paul Mozur covered technology and politics in Asia from Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Seoul. He was part of the team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Since joining The Times, he has written about China's tech boom, the geopolitics of semiconductors, online disinformation in Myanmar aiding a genocide, russian censorship, and the global spread and abuse of AI-powered surveillance technologies in western China, South America, and the Middle East. Before The Times, he worked at The Wall Street Journal and The Standard. He grew up in Pennsylvania and graduated from Dartmouth College with a double major in English literature and East Asian studies.
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The Daily's Verdict
This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.
Bias
86%
Examples:
- The author implies that these hackers are only targeting foreign governments and telecommunications firms when in fact they may be targeting other countries' domestic populations.
- The author implies that these hackers are only working on behalf of Chinese law enforcement and its premier spy agency when in fact they may be working for private companies.
- The author uses language that dehumanizes and demonizes China's hackers for hire by referring to them as 'secretive world.'
- The author uses language that portrays these hackers as being unethical and immoral by referring to their work as 'cyberespionage operations.',
Conflicts of Interest
75%
Examples:
- The author implies that these hackers are only targeting foreign governments and telecommunications firms when in fact they may be targeting other countries' domestic populations.
- The author implies that these hackers are only working on behalf of Chinese law enforcement and its premier spy agency when in fact they may be working for private companies.
Contradictions
86%
Examples:
- Employees complained about low pay and hoped to get jobs at other companies such as Qi An Xin.
- I-Soon is a company that contracts for many PRC agencies, including the Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of State Security, and People's Liberation Army.
- One soldier named Ajax reported that Starlink shut down just before Russian attacks.
- Starlink became extremely slow for Ukrainian soldiers earlier this month.
- Victim data and targeting lists show a company that competes for low-value hacking contracts from many government agencies.
Deceptions
75%
Examples:
- The article states that China has increasingly turned to private companies in campaigns to hack foreign governments and control its domestic population. However, it does not provide any evidence or context for this claim.
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