Pro-Western, anti-China influence ops taken down by Facebook and Twitter Tech giants Twitter and Meta in recent weeks removed social media accounts promoting pro-Western narratives that supported the United States and its allies while opposing countries like China and Russia, according to a report released on Wednesday (August 24). The joint study by the Stanford Internet Observatory a programme at Stanford University studying the abuse of the Internet and social media analytics firm Graphika points to the first time covert pro-Western influence operations have been identified and taken down on social media. “With few exceptions, the study of modern influence...