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China is using the world’s largest known online disinformation operation to harass Americans, a CNN review finds
Donie O'Sullivan Curt Devine
By Donie O'Sullivan, Curt Devine and Allison Gordon, CNN
10 minute read
Updated 8:55 PM EST, Mon November 13, 2023
The Chinese government has built up the world’s largest known online disinformation operation and is using it to harass US residents, politicians, and businesses—at times threatening its targets with violence, a CNN review of court documents and public disclosures by social media companies has found.
The onslaught of attacks – often of a vile and deeply personal nature – is part of a well-organized, increasingly brazen Chinese government intimidation campaign targeting people in the United States, documents show.
The US State Department says the tactics are part of a broader multi-billion-dollar effort to shape the world’s information environment and silence critics of Beijing that has expanded under President Xi Jinping. On Wednesday, President Biden is due to meet Xi at a summit in San Francisco.
Victims face a barrage of tens of thousands of social media posts that call them traitors, dogs, and racist and homophobic slurs. They say it’s all part of an effort to drive them into a state of constant fear and paranoia.
Often, these victims don’t know where to turn. Some have spoken to law enforcement, including the FBI – but little has been done. While tech and social media companies have shut down thousands of accounts targeting these victims, they’re outpaced by a slew of new accounts emerging virtually every day.
Known as “Spamouflage” or “Dragonbridge,” the network’s hundreds of thousands of accounts spread across every major social media platform have not only harassed Americans who have criticized the Chinese Communist Party, but have also sought to discredit US politicians, disparage American companies at odds with China’s interests and hijack online conversations around the globe that could portray the CCP in a negative light.
Private researchers have tracked the network since its discovery more than four years ago, but only in recent months have federal prosecutors and Facebook’s parent company Meta publicly concluded that the operation has ties to Chinese police.
Meta announced in August it had taken down a cluster of nearly 8,000 accounts attributed to this group in the second quarter of 2023 alone. Google, which owns YouTube, told CNN it had shut down more than 100,000 associated accounts in recent years, while X, formerly known as Twitter, has blocked hundreds of thousands of China “state-backed” or “state-linked” accounts, according to company blogs.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/13/us/china-online-disinformation-invs/index.html
Do you think they don't hang out on QR? Think again!
Anon gets it.
But it is actually true. Wanted to make a point that if even CNN is saying it, then it must be very serious. Or possibly even more significantly. It might signify an official change in the narrative.
>>19923704 last bread
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>https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae0449
>https://www.shannonwatch.org/content/us-air-force-c-32b-shannon
>https://www.key.aero/article/secret-usaf-boeing-757s-dont-exist
>>19923840 last bread
>No call sign at all until they entered the local pattern near McGuire AFB. Spaced out? Doubtful anon, doubtful. vidrel
>https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae0449
That's some straight up 9-11 style shit right there anons. Black ops USAF 757 using a Delta Airlines callsign. Not cool at all. PF supposes that PFs are now being trolled by the USAF. smdh
>Virginia plates on that car. And that driver is definitely a nigger.
>Tokyo? Really?
Wrong. California plates. The photo is from the video posted to twitter off the driver who plowed into the Chinese Embassy in SF and was asking where is the CCP a few months ago. Shot and killed when SF PD arrived. Was calling the driver who only made it to the barriers an amateur because this one made it all the way into the embassy building.
Just any old type of nuclear war? Or a specific type? All out maybe. Limited exchange, not so much. Fucking Daily Mail is a click farm.