Claim

Beijing Summer Intern ASSOCIATED_WITH China

The attack was connected to China, but Nicole says it was still unknown whether the actor was the Chinese military or a contractor.

Episode
EP 98 — Zero Day Brokers
Origin
Uncertain
Confidence
91% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Nicole Perlroth
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“the Chinese military – we actually still don’t know if it was the military or a contractor – hacked The New York Times”

Nicole Perlroth · offsets 2158–2276

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T07:12:15.684596+00:00

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