Stefan Mileschin

Declaring war on wrongful views

Vietnam is deploying a 10,000-strong military cyber warfare unit to combat what the government sees as a growing threat of "wrongful views" proliferating on the internet.

Nguyen Trong Nghia, deputy head of the general politics department under the Vietnam People's Military said that Force 47 will be working pro-actively against distorted information. This might seem a little odd if you think that most people use their cyber warriors to hack rival countries and carry out spywork. Our guess is that they will be using the unit for both activities.

The Communist government is currently leaning on YouTube and Facebook to remove videos and accounts seen damaging the reputations of leaders or promoting anti-party views.

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