Google exposes GLASSBRIDGE, a network of PRC PR firms laundering DRAGONBRIDGE narratives via fake news sites
PRC state-coordinated influence operation publicly attributed by Meta and Microsoft as the largest known covert online influence operation, with infrastructure and behavioural overlap with the Chines…
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Google Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant published a report on GLASSBRIDGE, an umbrella of four China-based commercial PR firms — Shanghai Haixun, Shenzhen Haimai Yunxiang, Shenzhen Bowen, and DURINBRIDGE — that operate hundreds of inauthentic websites posing as independent outlets from 30-plus countries. Google has blocked over 1,000 GLASSBRIDGE-operated sites from Google News and Discover since 2022, with DRAGONBRIDGE-aligned content — including signature attacks on Guo Wengui and Taiwan election narratives — identified on multiple GLASSBRIDGE properties.
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