3 Ways the Chinese Try to Turn American Voters Against Each Other

How’s this even possible?

Here’s how it would work: the accounts would make a post, comment on and like it, then share other posts from similar accounts, creating some sort of pattern where they would boost each other’s content.

A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., was asked to respond to the last Microsoft report, and the answer was: “In recent years, western media and think tanks have accused China of using AI to create fake social media accounts to interfere in US politics. These remarks are loaded with prejudice and malicious speculation against China, and we firmly oppose  them.

This July, cybersecurity research firm Mandiant added that it found Chinese-affiliated operatives had paid people in Washington, D.C., to protest a US government ban on various goods made in the Xinjiang region.

Videos of their protests were then “amplified” by all kinds of social media accounts used by the operatives.

Moreover, on August 29, Meta warned there was a Chinese influence campaign spreading false information, which involved more than 7,700 Facebook accounts, pages, groups, and Instagram accounts. The social media company removed all of them.