The use of strategic data sources, such as public opinion mining of social media platforms headquartered in the United States, to strengthen the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) capacity for influence and interference, should be stopped by governments. In order to thwart and prevent harmful CCP activity, governments, members of civil society, think tanks, and social media users should develop countermeasures and reactions to CCP information operations and propaganda efforts that centre on the discourse on human rights. Chinese officials and state media outlets are using social media to promote false information and influence public opinion in order to deflect attention…