HONG KONG – A China-based online network tried to recruit protesters in Europe and set up a media firm in Britain as part of a disinformation campaign, according to Facebook owner Meta. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HONG KONG – A China-based online network tried to recruit protesters in Europe and set up a media firm in Britain as part of a disinformation campaign, according to Facebook owner Meta.
Meta said it removed more than 100 Facebook pages, profiles and Instagram accounts linked to the network, accusing them of violating its policies against coordinated inauthentic behaviour.“These latest networks experimented with a range of tactics we haven’t seen in China-based operations before,” Meta said in its quarterly Adversarial Threat Report, published on Wednesday.
One tweet by the group from August 2022 said it was hiring “part-timers” to attend a protest in Hungary against billionaire philanthropist George Soros, a financier who is frequently a target of far-right conspiracy theories.Interspersed with the Europe-focused messaging was content pushing Beijing’s line on its policies in China’s western region of Xinjiang, where activists accuse the authorities of detaining more than one million Uighurs and other Muslims in forced re-education camps.
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