Company says users targeted in Australia, UK, US and elsewhere by political spam network across more than 50 platforms
said the pages were likely acquired from spam operators. The campaign spent US$3,500 in ads on Facebook.and targeted many regions around the world, including Taiwan, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan and global Chinese-speaking audiences,” Meta said.
Meta graph of peak activity times for accounts identified as part of the Spamouflage influence campaign.Meta said the network typically posted positive commentary about China and Xinjiang province and criticisms of the US, western foreign policies and critics of the Chinese government, including journalists and researchers.
Meta said one of the big campaigns the operation ran was posting trying to claim the origin of Covid was the US, including a 66-page “research paper” the group published, which included consistently misspelling the name of key protagonists in the paper.
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