Meta pins 'Spamouflage' influence campaign on Chinese law enforcement

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Meta pins 'Spamouflage' influence campaign on Chinese law enforcement
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By Katie Paul NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook parent company Meta said on Tuesday it had uncovered links between people associated with Chinese law ...

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The social media giant removed around 7,700 Facebook accounts and hundreds of other pages, groups and Instagram accounts connected to the campaign, elements of which have been active since 2018, it said in a quarterly security report. With the latest activity detected, Meta executives said they believed that"Spamouflage" had become the largest known cross-platform influence operation to date, with a presence on at least 50 services.

The"Spamouflage" network first started out posting on large platforms like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, now called X. More recent activity showed it had expanded its footprint to include smaller platforms like Medium, Reddit, Quora and Vimeo as well, the company said.

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