{"id":2016594,"date":"2023-08-30T11:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T15:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-law-enforcement-caught-running-largest-ever-influence-network-meta-says\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T11:17:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T15:17:14","slug":"chinese-law-enforcement-caught-running-largest-ever-influence-network-meta-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-law-enforcement-caught-running-largest-ever-influence-network-meta-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese law enforcement caught operating largest-ever influence network, according to Meta."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinese-law-enforcement-caught-running-largest-ever-influence-network-meta-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2016594&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Facebook Uncovers Chinese Influence Operation on Social Media<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Facebook parent company \u200dMeta said on Tuesday it\u200d had uncovered links between people associated with Chinese law enforcement\u200c and a long-running but\u2064 largely\u2064 ineffectual operation to positively influence people on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> about China.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The social media giant removed around 7,700 Facebook accounts and hundreds of other pages, \u2064groups, and Instagram accounts connected to \u2064the \u200dso-called &#8220;Spamouflage&#8221; campaign, elements\u200b of which have been active since 2018, \u200bit said in a quarterly security report.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Spamouflage&#8221; network has engaged in spurts of activity over the last\u200c several years pushing\u200b positive narratives about China and negative commentary about the United States, Western foreign policies, and critics of the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>With the latest activity detected, Meta executives said they believed \u200cthat &#8220;Spamouflage&#8221; had become the largest known cross-platform influence operation to date, with a presence on at least 50 services.<\/p>\n<p>Clusters of \u2063the campaign&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anaylsis-more-than-half-of-joe-bidens-twitter-followers-are-fake-and-were-just-created-in-january\/\" title=\"Anaylsis: More Than Half Of Joe Biden\u2019s Twitter Followers Are FAKE and Were Just Created in January\">fake accounts<\/a> were run from different parts of China, but shared digital infrastructure and \u200bappeared to operate with\u2064 clear shift \u200bpatterns, including breaks\u2063 for lunch and dinner on Beijing time, Meta\u2063 said.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tensions-flare-between-china-india-after-clashes-at-himalayan-border\/\" title=\"Tensions flare between China, India after clashes at Himalayan border\">foreign ministry<\/a> said it was not aware of the findings, but added that individuals and\u200d institutions have often launched campaigns against China on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platforms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We \u200dhope that the relevant company adheres to \u2062the principle of objectivity and impartiality, and avoids double standards. Truly identify what lies and rumors are, what\u2063 is\u2062 the\u200c truth, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-law-enforcement-caught-running-largest-ever-influence-network-meta-says\/\" title=\"Chinese law enforcement caught operating largest-ever influence network, according to Meta.\">effectively eliminate false \u200dinformation related<\/a> to \u200bChina,&#8221; \u2064foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said when asked about the matter\u2062 at a news briefing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The &#8220;Spamouflage&#8221;\u200d network\u2064 first started out posting on large platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, now called X. More recent activity\u2063 showed it had expanded its\u200d footprint to include \u200csmaller platforms like \u200dMedium, Reddit,\u200b Quora, and Vimeo as \u2063well, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>It amassed a following of about\u200d 560,000 accounts for its pages on Facebook, but Meta executives said they believed most of the accounts were fakes that \u200bhad been purchased from commercial spam operators in places like Vietnam\u200d and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>They said they saw little\u200c evidence of genuine audience or engagement beyond that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This operation was large and noisy, but \u200cit struggled to reach beyond its own fake echo chamber,&#8221;\u200c said Meta&#8217;s Global Threat Intelligence Lead Ben Nimmo.<\/p>\n<p>In one case suggestive of the accounts&#8217; spammy background, a Facebook page that had previously published Chinese-language ads about lingerie abruptly switched to writing English-language posts about riots in Kazakhstan, Nimmo said.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Katie Paul; Additional reporting by Liz Lee\u200c in Beijing; editing \u200bby David Gregorio and Miral\u200d Fahmy)<\/p>\n<h3>Published under:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>China:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/china\/\" title=\"View all posts in China\">China<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese law enforcement. Meta&#8217;s investigation revealed a long-standing, yet ineffective, campaign aimed at manipulating public opinion on China through social media. Consequently, the company took down approximately 7,700 Facebook accounts, along with numerous pages, groups, and Instagram accounts associated with this operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2016595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}