Smear Campaign Says Anti-Flock Movement Is Chinese Propaganda
Lobbying report and coordinated media push claim anti-Flock surveillance opposition is Chinese-linked propaganda; 404 Media disputes the evidence.
More than a dozen local TV stations ran a report framing opponents of Flock's automated license plate reader cameras and AI data centers as far-left activists funded by China-linked networks and billionaire Neville Roy Singham. A report from lobbying group Consumer Action for a Strong Economy, with a foreword by former NSA head Rob Joyce, makes similar claims, though AI-detection tool Pangram found most of it was likely AI-written and its cited evidence is thin. 404 Media argues the smear mirrors Flock CEO Garrett Langley's earlier, since-apologized-for attacks on critics, while noting the report's own data shows most online opposition comes from right-wing or libertarian accounts.
- Consumer Action for a Strong Economy's report claims China-linked activist networks drive opposition to Flock cameras and AI data centers.
- Pangram detected nearly all of the report as likely AI-generated, and it features AI-generated cover imagery.
- Report's evidence rests on groups funded by Neville Roy Singham having posted about Flock, which 404 Media calls inconsequential.
- The report itself notes 81% of politically classifiable Flock-related posts came from right-wing or libertarian accounts.
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Sinclair Broadcasting is pushing the idea that China and the No Kings protesters are the reason people don't like Flock.
By Jason Koebler · 404media.co
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