I can't imagine their reaction when they discover that so many IP cameras/NVR/DVR have been and still are being used as surveillance devices, and in some cases they have been hacked to either phone home (China?) video feeds, or as botnet hosts.
Or when they discover most of the technology equipment and chips they buy are made in China, including common networking equipment like routers that require cloud login to manage.
This is a very different threat vector. None of the examples you or the parent commenter have cited enable influence/propaganda/mis- or dis-info/psyops.
https://hacked.camera/
http://www.insecam.org/en/