Meta links Spamouflage to Chinese law enforcement and removes 7,704 Facebook accounts
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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Meta announced in its Q2 2023 Adversarial Threat Report the removal of 7,704 Facebook accounts, 954 Pages, 15 Groups, and 15 Instagram accounts attributed to Spamouflage in what the company called its largest single takedown to date. For the first time Meta publicly linked the operation to individuals associated with Chinese law enforcement, describing it as the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world, active across more than 50 platforms and targeting Taiwan, the US, UK, Australia, Japan, and global Chinese-speaking audiences.
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