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US charges China-based Zoom exec with disrupting Tiananmen meetings
- Saturday | 19th December, 2020
NEW YORK (Reuters) – US prosecutors on Friday charged a former China-based executive at Zoom Video Communications Inc with disrupting video meetings commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown at the request of the Chinese government. Jin allegedly fabricated violations of Zoom’s terms of service to justify his actions to his superiors. Prosecutors also said his accomplices created fake email accounts and Zoom accounts, including in dissidents’ names, to suggest meeting hosts and participants supported terrorism, violence and child pornography. In a blog post, Zoom said it fired Jin for violating the San Jose, California-based company’s policies, and has placed other employees on leave. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel; Editing by Rosalba O’Brien, Jonathan Oatis and Tom Brown)Related article: Zoom used to bypass the Great Firewall of China to access outside world
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