Just posted by Gregg Phillips on TS:

Newsbreak is also a prolific collector of geospatial data which by Chinese law is piped directly to the CCP.

except from article:

News Break and Phoenix T.V.

From October 2014 to December 2016, Phoenix New Media had a 44.2% stake in Particle Media, and that’s a potion worth $135.3 million. After that, it sold most of the stakes, but 3.63% of Particle Media remained.

Yidian ZIxun is its parent company, and among the largest shareholders is Xiaomi. Phoenix T.V. is Phoenix New Media’s parent company, with Liu Shuang as CEO.

You have a pdf file here of Phoenix New Media update on the sale of the shared in Z.Y. We learn that Particle Media was founded on July 22, 2013, Cayman Islands, an exempted company. One week later, Particle H.K. Ltd. was registered in Hong Kong to finish the shareholding transaction.

The Wire China announced that Zheng created Media Inc in Delaware, and the headquarters are in Mountain View. He’s a shareholder in Y.Z. in Beijing.

News Break denies that they are connected with Phoenix and Yidian Linux and added that its backers were some small companies to which CCP is a partial owner.

‘’Phoenix Satellite T.V. Holdings Limited was founded on March 31, 1996, and had headquarters in Hong Kong. Initially, it was a joint venture between Murdoch’s News Group, Today’s Asia Ltd., By Liu Changle, and CCTV’s ‘’China Wise International Limited.’’

In the past, News Group with Today’s Asia had 45% of Phoenix T.V., and china Wise International had only 10%. Liu Changle was the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer.

Moreover, it was the first T.V. station that had the legal right to broadcast in China. Also, the National Radio and T.V. Administration of China in 2003 granted the landing rights.

Phoenix TV, Liu Changle, and the CCP

Phoenix T.V. is widely known as the mouthpiece of the CCP, and it had consistent News reporting with the stance of the CCP.

Liu Changle stated: “CCTV is the big brother, and we are the little brother.”

According to a commentator, in 2005, Liu Chiangle said that the CCP’s Ministry of State Security gave him $2 million to set up one television station.

moar here: https://thetruereporter.com/newsbreak-app-controlled-by-chinese-entities/