China's disinformation campaign on Western social media is a "far more menacing threat" than Russia's, Mark Grabowski told news outlets.

Earlier this month, Twitter revealed it suspended 175,000 Chinese propaganda accounts — 150x more than Russia. Grabowski, who teaches cyber law and ethics, said China could exploit the anti-government sentiment held by many American academics, journalists, and lawmakers to propel anti-U.S. narratives.

“They provide the appearance of credibility and China simply provides the retweets and makes that narrative go viral,” he said in interviews this month with The Epoch Times and The Millennial Source.

He also warned about risks posed by TikTok, which is owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance. The video sharing app, which has about 45 million American users, has seen a surge in popularity during the pandemic.

“By analyzing its treasure trove of data, China can gain all kinds of insights and leverage it to manipulate Americans,” Grabowski said. “With so many Americans practically living online now, especially during the lockdown, China understands American society very well and they know what buttons to push,” he added.

In his latest Washington Examiner column, Mark Grabowski tackled objectivity in journalism.

Newsrooms across the nation have experienced internal conflict as  many journalists have recently called to abolish the long-standing principle of reporting news objectively. They argue that President Trump's presidency coupled with the current tumult in the United States necessitates that journalists take a new approach.

But Grabowski, a former newspaper reporter who now teaches media ethics, warned that abandoning objectivity will only further hurt the press's declining reputation.

"Journalism’s long-standing principles did not fail; rather, journalists failed to adhere to them," he wrote. "As journalists abandoned those core values in favor of an alternative approach, public trust in the press declined."

Read his full column here.

Mark Grabowski discussed with Coin Telegraph a growing cybersecurity risk for Bitcoin investors: SIM swaps.

Instead of hacking your computer, cyber criminals are now targeting your cell phone as it can be the key to your most important financial accounts. Several cryptocurrency investors have been targeted recently and, in some cases, lost millions of dollars.

“In addition to infecting smartphones with malware, criminals are illegally spoofing users’ phone numbers (faking the number that an incoming call is from), porting their numbers (moving the number from a user’s phone to another phone controlled by the criminal) and even cloning SIM cards, the computer chips that identify a phone, to access users’ data and steal money,” he told the crypto news site.

Grabowski, a professor who wrote a book on cryptocurrencies, said the Federal Communications Commission and wireless carriers must provide stronger protections for customers to truly lock down cell phone accounts.