(Washington Comprehensive News) Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, cut off the first known online public opinion offensive led by Chinese users and attempts to influence American midterm elections.Meta said that despite the small scale, it still reflects that China's propaganda offensive has begun to intervene in US politics more directly.
Reuters quoted Meta's report on Tuesday (September 27) that the offensive uses false accounts on Meta's facebooks and Instagram, and their competitors such as Twitter to comment on American political topics.Try to influence the mid -term elections in November.
The report said that although these false accounts did not attract many fans, it still reflects that the publicity of Chinese publicity propaganda to US politics has become more direct.
Meta Global Threat Intelligence Director Ben Nimmo said that China's public opinion propaganda was to talk to the United States elsewhere around the world, but this time the propaganda target is Americans, pretending to be Americans, and speak to Americans.Aiming at the topic hot topics of American political hotspots such as abortion and gun control, the views of the left and rightists have been expressed.
Meta said that those fake accounts pretend to be liberals and conservatives who are dressed as different states in the United States. Since January 2021, they have left messages in the posts of public figures and posted political fans.
Meta said that there is no sufficient evidence to prove that who led this offensive in China.
Twitter spokesman said that Twitter also noticed the information in the META report and closed the relevant account.
Merrick Garland, the US Minister of Justice, was asked about Meta's report that the Ministry of Justice was "very concerned about the information of foreign government intervention in US elections and said"" ".
