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Wall Street Journal TECHNOLOGY


Meta Uncovers Largest-Ever Chinese Influence Network


Company removed almost 8,000 accounts, says content didn’t spread far


Meta Platforms said it has taken down the largest known online covert influence operation in the world, a cross-platform campaign that was aimed at advancing China’s interests and discrediting its adversaries including the U.S.


In a report released Tuesday, Meta said the effort was largely unsuccessful despite comprising thousands of accounts across more than 50 apps, including about 7,700 of its own Facebook and Instagram, plus YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Pinterest and X, formerly Twitter. Meta said the operation, known in the security community as “Spamouflage,” dated back to 2019 and was linked to individuals associated with Chinese law enforcement.


Meta said the China network was pushing positive commentary about the country as well as criticism of the U.S. and western foreign policies. It was run by operators dispersed across China, and many of the accounts were detected and disabled by the company’s automated systems. Meta said this likely led to posting on smaller platforms and trying to amplify the content to larger services.


“We have not found evidence of this network getting any substantial engagement among authentic communities on our services,” Meta said.


The Chinese government has broadly denied targeting the U.S. with online influence campaigns or disinformation. Likewise, Russia has previously denied trying to influence U.S. elections.


In a statement, the Chinese embassy in Washington said China opposes the production and spread of false information. It said U.S. social media was “awash with disinformation about China,” but didn’t address Meta’s allegations or actions.


The Russian embassy in Washington didn’t respond to a request for comment.


The takedown was the seventh that Meta said it has removed from China over the past six years. It was also one of several around the globe that Meta said it recently completed, including the disruption of Doppelganger, the largest and most aggressive Russian operation the company has seen. That campaign, which was focused on weakening support for Ukraine by its allies, entailed operators posting links to websites resembling real news outlets and containing pro-Russia narratives. Because those exist off-platform, Meta said they can be difficult to counter.


“Enforcements on each individual platform can only go so far in disrupting these internet-wide campaigns while their websites remain live,” Meta said.


Meta and other social platforms began sharpening their focus on coordinated campaigns intended to sway public opinion after the identification of Russian government interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. A 2019 report from a U.S. Senate committee criticized U.S. tech giants for helping spread disinformation during the 2016 campaign and called for better coordination of efforts to prevent similar activity for future elections.


Covert social-media campaigns are essentially a whack-a-mole problem for platform operators. People seeking to achieve illicit goals through such campaigns are constantly refining their methods to avoid detection, according to security experts.


Some common indicators of malicious activity include posts with spelling and grammar errors and links to unrelated topics. The China network’s posts were so spammy that the operation appeared to be prioritizing volume over audience building, said Ben Nimmo, global threat intelligence lead at Meta.


“It’s throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks,” he said, adding that this raises a question of whether the operators were really trying to influence social-media users or simply earn a paycheck. “Who is the ultimate target—the audience or the guys paying the bills?”


Meta’s latest takedowns come as U.S. relations with China are tense and as the U.S. opposes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In recent months, the White House has confirmed reports of China ramping up its military presence in Cuba, while President Biden called Chinese leader Xi Jinping a dictator. Washington has been preparing measures to curb exports of advanced semiconductors to China and to cut Chinese companies off from U.S. cloud computing platforms.


Write to Sarah E. Needleman at [email protected]
 
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Zuckerberg that little Weasel profits off of ALL Chinese spam.

MAYBE they try to take down programming and seditious accounts..

X is just as guilty. Garbage fake accounts everywhere acting like hot babes to lure drunk boomers as friends.
 
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LOTS of munny to be made standing on a soapbox in the public square saying the Chinese are raping our wimmen…

But they won’t even give me $20 for patriotically defacing my local Chinese take - out.

I’ve been so propagandized by those billions, it actually hurts…
 
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In my area...I feel bad for the local Chinese. People sneer at them.

News is smearing China big time.

These shenanigans are very well - funded by H.R. 2329.

Coulda used that cash for education and infrastructure, if I had my way…

Won’t be surprised if some of the “patriots” here are actually gubmint bots.

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Meanwhile…

Because “peaceful demonstrations” and “Democracy.”

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Proudly *** and C.I.A.y 🤣

Where’s that damned rainbow emoji?
 
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The wise man Mark Twain once said "don't believe anything you read and half of what you see".

My Grandfather said you can always tell when a politician lies, his lips move.

Used to be that only getting caught with a dead girl or a live boy would get you kicked out of the congress, not so much anymore after Ted Kennedy and Barney Franks.
 
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I don't have any social media accounts, (is the Hide a social media account?) I think people waste too much of their time and life on them. Maybe because of my age , I'm old enough and having studied history to know now to believe or trust anything positive said about the Chinese or Russian governments.
Then again, our own government has proven it can't be trusted.
 
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NYC outsourced our 1970s...1980s...and 1990s paradise to China.

Who is the real enemy or jerk ?

The guy from Hong Kong trying to earn a living while his family in Hong Kong is shipped to frozen gulags....

Or NYC and Toronto money men?

I know these guys and how they are. All they care about is another 200,000k on the craps table in Vegas to show off. Pure ego.

They are quite repulsive and annoying actually.

I would sooner ally with a Vancouver Taipei/Hong Kong anti Communist Triad then
Jordan Sheckel Belfort from Montauk.

Even though Jordan Sheckel is funny and charming...there is a fine line..

And theeyyyyy wonder why.....
 
The guy from Hong Kong trying to earn a living while his family in Hong Kong is shipped to frozen gulags....

This is funny.

I actually frequent Hong Kong a lot.

It is freer and safer there than any major metropolitan U.S. city I’ve been to.

You can walk through their waterfront parks in the middle of night - no crime, no police, no bother.

Restaurants used to open all night, but they started closing at ~ 8PM after the pandemic.

If you want to paint a stereotype of “repression” and "gulags," try chewing gum in public in Singapore.

They'll execute you, your mom, and your dog, too - just to make sure your neighbor doesn't get your gum - chewing freedom vibes.

And yet, they are far freer and prosperous in Singapore than any of the brainwashed, propagandized ostensibly racist “patriots” we have here.
 
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This is funny.

I actually frequent Hong Kong a lot.

It is freer and safer there than any major metropolitan U.S. city I’ve been to.

You can walk through their waterfront parks in the middle of night - no crime, no police, no bother.

Restaurants used to open all night, but they started closing at ~ 8PM after the pandemic.

If you want to paint a stereotype of “repression” and "gulags," try chewing gum in public in Singapore.

They'll execute you, your mom, and your dog, too - just to make sure your neighbor doesn't get your gum - chewing freedom vibes.


Yes.

The Human Development Index of Hong Kong is extremely high. If Hong Kong were a state, I believe it would be a larger economy then California.

Hong Kong makes Los Angeles look like Detroit.

But there have been hundreds if not thousands of Hong Kongertonians snatched up and shipped of to Harbin to get rusty re-bar beatings and sex changes due to the violent turnover and dissent.

Beijing still has blood under its nails. A lot of chunks of skin too.

Now Australia and Canada and the U.K. had to absorb hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers that fled.

Now I have to deal with their bullshit retard face faux arrogant bullshit. They have tinted windows so that you cannot sneer at them on the road.

How many M.S.S. came over?

How many Mandarins influence these Cantonese via duress?

Already busted these retard faces trying to use Huawei 5G hardware to infiltrate everything.

Time to bust out the old Hickory walking stick to hit them on top of the head like in 1920?

Time will tell. Only time will tell.
 
In my area...I feel bad for the local Chinese. People sneer at them.

News is smearing China big time.

Chinese-Americans are some totally patriotic citizens and hate Chicoms.

Chicoms are scum and need to be expunged from Our universities, businesses, cities, land ownership and shores.

Sirhr
 
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Now Australia and Canada and the U.K. had to absorb hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers that fled.

The history behind that was the exodus during the 1997 (?) handover.

There was a lot of hysteria behind it - rightfully so - as the core individuals making up Hong Kong had in fact fled from the Communists a generation or two beforehand.

However - a good deal of them ended going back to Hong Kong after realizing that nothing really happened.

Too stagnant, no money to be made there.
 
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Chinese-Americans are some totally patriotic citizens and hate Chicoms.

Chicoms are scum and need to be expunged from Our universities, businesses, cities, land ownership and shores.

Sirhr

Agreed. Love Chinese.

My best friend in the 90s was a tip top hoe (triad variant) or something like that till I punched him out cold over some drunk bullshit.

Chi Coms use Real Estate strawmen to build and launder...to endow university's,...make businesses...buy land...and food companies.

They pay politicians and S&P500 to be DEI...they have corrupted the American and Canadian Jewish community to an extent that has not been seen since the 1920s-1950s.

(Who can refuse big, medium, and small money deals)?

The Canadian judiciary has now had their feet put into the fire. Thornhill in Toronto (Ultra Rich Alt-Left Jewish Judiciary Neighborhood) has been under siege for a while now by Arab Canadians..

Crown is permitting it. Total harassment and quasi physical.

Now they are voting Conservative.

WOW!!!!!

How did that happen?

Extreme Forensic Accountibilty. That's how

Follow the money...follow the laws.
 
But there have been hundreds if not thousands of Hong Kongertonians snatched up and shipped of to Harbin to get rusty re-bar beatings and sex changes due to the violent turnover and dissent.

The firms I do consultancy for have seen no such thing, just saying.

Now I have to deal with their bullshit retard face faux arrogant bullshit. They have tinted windows so that you cannot sneer at them on the road.

“Retard faces…” You mean the Chinese?
 
The history behind that was the exodus during the 1997 (?) handover.

There was a lot of hysteria behind it - rightfully so - as the core individuals making up Hong Kong had in fact fled from the Communists a generation or two beforehand.

However - a good deal of them ended going back to Hong Kong after realizing that nothing really happened.


Correct. Lots stayed out too.

5th column with legitimate Political refugees.

San Francisco and NYC has ton's.
 
Retard faces. Slang for people that piss me off even after they have been busted cut and dry.

You know...the retard face.

Oh, yes - quite familiar with them.

We host a day - care center for emplyees’ kids.

There are a few with Down Syndrome, but they’re the among the sweetest kids there are.
 
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Honestly, we really just need to man up and actually work to compete with them…

While we have our petty ineffectual outbursts, they’re studying / working / producing.

Our idiotic vitriol is only reinforcing what has been termed “grassroots nationalism” on their end.

They’ll surpass us, and make us irrelevant.

Unwise, considering we need them far more than they need us.

The world is already turning its back on us, in large part to our arrogance and what putatively are pervasive expressions of “Manifest Destiny.”

We just need to deal with their rise, instead of whining…

They’re at the very least as smart as us, work far harder, and are far more numerous.

Suck it up, tighten our belts, and hopefully we could ride the next century with them.

Otherwise, we lose.
 
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Honestly, we really just need to man up and actually work to compete with them…

While we have outbursts, they’re studying / working / producing.

We’re just reinforcing what has been termed “grassroots nationalism” on their end.

We just need to deal with it, instead of complaining…

I have been studying and working more then the top 1% of Chinese.

We need to shift 70% of China's E.U. and North American exports (Dollarama and Wal Mart Trinkets) to Mexico, Cambodia, and possibly....India/Bangladesh.

China will then be able to live free once their population is down to around 600 Million by 2100.

No problem.
 
Zuckerberg that little Weasel profits off of ALL Chinese spam.

MAYBE they try to take down programming and seditious accounts..

X is just as guilty. Garbage fake accounts everywhere acting like hot babes to lure drunk boomers as friends.
I was just called "Handsome guy" earlier today by some random babe who wanted to be on my friend list.

Now you're telling me it was some flatfaced zipper in China?
 
I was just called "Handsome guy" earlier today by some random babe who wanted to be on my friend list.

Now you're telling me it was some flatfaced zipper in China?


Could be an Alabama whore in Mexico.

Could be A.I. generated to get fraudulent commissions for Mark and his Thornhill cousins....

Don't know.

Will have to do a forensic audit to be sure.

Send me a screenshot.

The guilty party will be brutally harassed and paraded.