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Pro-China social media campaign hits new countries, blames US for COVID

September 10, 2021
Source: thefloridapost.com thefloridapost.com
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SAN FRANCISCO – A misinformation campaign on social media in support of Chinese government interests has expanded to new languages and platforms, and it even tried to get people to show up to protests in the United States, researchers said on Wednesday. Experts at security company FireEye (FEYE.O) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google said the operation was identified in 2019 as running hundreds of accounts in English and Chinese aimed at discrediting the Hong Kong democracy movement. The effort has broadened its mission and spread from Twitter (TWTR.N), Facebook (FB.O) and Google to thousands of handles on dozens of sites around...
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