Brooks Laich

Yeah.

Aaron Ross Powell, Jr.

: Her and Yao Ning Sun worked together to operate a website called US News Center that purported to be a news source for the local Chinese-American community.

But the US News Center received and executed directives from the People's Republic of China government officials to post pro-PRC content on the website and sometimes sought approval from PRC officials to circulate other pro-PRC content.

Or they'd unleash both.

They'd put some Facebook ads against one side and one against – and it was just to sow discord.

That's – we need the Benny Hill music over their Chinese scams.

Yes.

Yakety Sax.

Yep.

Yeah.

I also love the name of this like center that they created, this news outlet.

They call it US News Center run by the Chinese American – they don't even come up with clever names.

It's like we need a cover.

We'll call it American Business Company.

Right.

Violence Fight.

Yeah.

So San Francisco is plotting an outdoor smoking ban.

They're rolling out a sweeping outdoor smoking ban that would snuff out cigarettes on bar patios and parklets across the city.