'Kong Tsung-gan'

'Kong Tsung-gan'  (psychological operation, propaganda)
Interests	• Amnesty International • Hong Kong

'Kong Tsung-gan was an alleged prominent Hong Kong pundit and anti-China activist, who Western corporate media used as a go-to source for quotes. In August 2020, it was revealed the Twitter activist was in fact Brian Patrick Kern, a US citizen pretending to be Asian.

Activities

Kong live-tweeted during protests, posted incendiary commentary about the Communist Party of China (CPC), likens the Hong Kong “struggle” to Tibet and Xinjiang, and begs the United States to ram through sanction bills like the Hong Kong Safe Harbor and Hong Kong People’s Freedom and Choice Acts. This begging to punish Hong Kong, apparently from a Hong-Kong resident, made ong Tsung-gan one of corporate Western media’s go-to sources for soundbites.

He has been described as an “author” (CNN, Globe and Mail, Time), “writer and activist” (New York Times, Washington Post), “activist and author” (LA Times),“activist” (AFP, Al Jazeera), “writer, educator and activist” (Guardian), “political writer” (Foreign Policy), “writer” (Vice), and “Hong Kong writer and activist” in an op-ed posted by the Nikkei Asian Review.

Kong has also been cited as a “Hong Kong journalist and rights activist” by Radio Free Asia and as a “rights activist and author” by Voice of America, two subsidiaries of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM).

Kong Tsung-gan and Brian Patrick Kern (right)

Twitter account not suspended

In contrast to twitter accounts merely accused of being Russian, Chinese, Iranian etc 'bots', the Kong Tsung-gan twitter account was still in operation in November 2020.

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