Facebook said Tuesday it has identified a sprawling online propaganda effort: a pro-China campaign that had a presence on more than 50 websites.
The campaign “appears to be the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world,” Meta said in a report. The researchers said the broadly coordinated postings of pro-China images, videos, comments and audio files were part of a yearslong operation that researchers had previously dubbed “Spamouflage.”
The findings underscore the potential for internet propaganda campaigns to attempt to exploit internet platforms to influence the U.S. election in 2024. Since 2016, Russia, Iran and to a lesser extent China have all launched covert online efforts to influence U.S. voters.
I see this shit even on relatively small platforms. China and Russia have always been politically fraught. You think people would know that by now. I’ve seen more than my fair share of tankies waving pro china/Russia symbols around with LGBT and black power content, and I ask them if they actually know what they’ve done to groups like that in their own countries, lol.