A pro-China misinformation operation is growing and attempting to fuel physical protests by exploiting US Covid divisions, a report says.
Washington A pro-Chinese government online influence operation is targeting Americans in an effort to exploit divisions over the Covid-19 pandemic and"physically mobilize protestors in the US in response," according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Mandiant and experts at Google.
The operation, which initially attempted to discredit pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2019, has expanded into a"global campaign that's operating in seven languages, on at least 30 social media platforms and across 40+ website & forums," experts at Mandiant and Google say, noting parallels to the Russian disinformation campaign around the 2016 presidential election.
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