The disinformation campaign posted positive news about China and the Xinjiang province while criticizing U.S. policy and officials across dozens of platforms.
"Taken together, we assess Spamouflage to be the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation to date," Meta said in its quarterly threat report."Although the people behind this activity tried to conceal their identities and coordination, our investigation found links to individuals associated with Chinese law enforcement."
The disruptions come ahead of what will likely be a contentious election cycle. Concerns over the role of influence campaigns in past elections led social media platforms, including Meta, to institute stricter guidelines on both the kind of political content allowed and the labels it adds to that content.But this disinformation network, while prolific, was not effective, Meta cybersecurity executives said on a briefing call.
"These operations are really large, and they are very persistent. The Chinese operation in particular was working across more than 50 different internet platforms and was trying to spread content anywhere it could across the internet," Nimmo told Javers."And it's persistent. They do keep on trying. We've seen them evolve."
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