EXCLUSIVE: China is behind the largest known covert propaganda operation ever identified on Facebook and Instagram. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/china-facebook-instagram-propaganda-campaign-1234813762/
Chinese Ministry Outed as Author of Mass Online Influence Operation

The influence operation spread propaganda about Hong Kong’s democracy movement, Covid-19’s origins, and the U.S. midterm elections

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Glad I don't use either.
@NickRP @RollingStone after Cambridge Analytica and Russian bots, I just assumed FB was a wasteland of everything that sucks about the internet. I forsook it some time ago and never looked back.
@RollingStone The Chinese Military's sole combat experience in the 21st century is arguing with people online and they think they can invade #Taiwan do they? 🤔

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“It always comes back down to this question,” Nimmo says, “of who’s kidding whom here? To what extent are [Spamouflage Dragon] targeting foreign audiences and to what extent are they targeting the people who might be paying them – to make them think that they’re reaching foreign audiences?”

I bet their other job is curating data to train AI

@RollingStone facebook and instagram exist solely to propagandize and manipulate. No one is safe there, no one should be there, enter at your own risk and the risk of everyone around you when you internalize that garbage.

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The campaign’s lack of any audience development despite years of operation, dozens of personnel behind it, and thousands of pieces of content leads some to wonder why China even bothers with the trolling effort.
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Why even bother, westerners can troll themselves just fine and #tankies will praise #China and #CCP for free.

@RollingStone spamouflage dragon 🐲 lol
@RollingStone Even Rolling Stone pushing PR to make Facebook look good while stull letting tons of disinformation pushed by Russia , right wing racists and anti-LGBQT and anti-women haters earn them money for traffic of lies and hate!
@RollingStone I kind of wanted to read this article but after I had to close the auto-playing video, close the "this is your last free article" bar, re-scroll the page after it suddenly jumped down half a screen, and was about to start reading, finally, when a "this page wants to show you notifications"prompt appeared, I gave up and closed the site in disgust. Peace.
@RollingStone So does this mean covid came from a Wuhan lab, or an open-air food market?