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Facebook said Tuesday it has identified a sprawling online propaganda effort: a pro-China campaign that had a presence on more than 50 websites.

The campaign “appears to be the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world,” Meta said in a report. The researchers said the broadly coordinated postings of pro-China images, videos, comments and audio files were part of a yearslong operation that researchers had previously dubbed “Spamouflage.”

The findings underscore the potential for internet propaganda campaigns to attempt to exploit internet platforms to influence the U.S. election in 2024. Since 2016, Russia, Iran and to a lesser extent China have all launched covert online efforts to influence U.S. voters.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago

Not here though. Much like glorious leader Xi Jinping, Lemmy is free from corruption and beautiful like cherry blossom in the wind.

[–] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 40 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Propaganda pushers are the absolute fucking bottomfeeders of the lowest lows.

If your job is purposely, wittingly mislead people, you're a fucking waste of blood and organs.

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Marketing. All of it. The entire industry of marketing and sales.

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

If your job is purposely, wittingly mislead people, you’re a fucking waste of blood and organs.

Not to in any way minimize the evils of propagandists, as they're pushing much more damaging messages, but that describes most of the advertising industry. It's just that those liars and manipulators are doing it for a brand so people waste money rather than a political cause.

It's kind of crazy that we just tolerate an entire massive industry that adds nothing to the world and is based around misleading people. And it's a business run out of fancy glass buildings out in the open rather than hidden away.

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait do they just mean lemmygrad and hexbear users being federated to all the other instances?

[–] roboticide@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Lol, right?

But actually probably not because it's just taken for granted tankies are here and they actually have to "work" to "infiltrate" places like Facebook and Reddit.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

They "discovered", lol. Do you mean that China stopped paying because Facebook isn't where it's at anymore?

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why is Lemmy not on this list?

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Because lemmy shills are super obvious, nobody has to "discover" them

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They aren't even good at it. Their entire schtick is literally "you are obviously biased because you haven't read enough Lenin", like it's this big gotcha.

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[–] teft@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

Reading the article it seems like the whole operation was super obvious and a bit amateurish. Par for the course.

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, motherfuckers over at lemmygrad are astroturfing HARD. It's like the Russia/China circlejerk over there. The "greatest socialist experiment of all time". Smfh.

[–] uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 years ago

I see you haven't met hexbear yet

[–] bioemerl@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The “greatest socialist experiment of all time”. Smfh.

Ten years later:

China wasn't actually socialist, it was capitalist!

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Don't tell them that. They'll call you an evil colonialist Democrat.

[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

And then tell you that Democrats are fascists

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago
[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

USSR maybe, Russia today is a capitalist hegemon. China is a mixed economy, and I find on the communist subs people often don't realize it went through all kinds of neoliberal reforms. There's both pro and anti China propaganda. Shen Yun for instance is pretty absurd anti China propaganda run by the Falun Gong.

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[–] Roundcat@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hey ya'll, I know some of you are here on lemmy, and I let me just say...

Ya'll doing alright? I've read recently about a lot of flooding in Hubei and Jingxi provinces, and despite how I may feel about the CCP and all, I want to make sure ya'll are good.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago
[–] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Roundcat@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Don'cha be correctin' my gammar like some kinduv harvard elite!

Its ma dialect, y'ain't gonna tell me how t'contract n conjugate!

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Roundcat@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Well looky there. The Georgia yankee tryin t'tell me howta pronounce his alma mader!

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago
[–] sendmestuff 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Fuck the people whose work is to push government propaganda. Being a prostitute is more honest than that. You are doing humanity a disservice.

[–] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

Weird jab at sex workers..

[–] local_taxi_fix@lemmy.one 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The prostitution comparison is completely out of left field. You're implying that sex workers are dishonest, which I don't see at all. The proposition of a sex worker is very upfront.

Lawyer, salesman, CEO, politician, or advertising exec would all be way better examples of dishonest professions.

[–] sendmestuff 2 points 2 years ago

You are all right. My comparison was quite unfortunate. I wanted to compare with something that some ppl tipically think its less honest. But i agree, i think prostitution/sex work is an honest field of work, much more honest than being a banker, politician nowadays.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What's at all dishonest about sex work?

You're literally showing your client your butthole, no secrets there

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

WOW, I'm really surprised by this revelation. 🙃

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

These headlines... These articles...

Of course it's happening. Who didn't think it was happening.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

I see this shit even on relatively small platforms. China and Russia have always been politically fraught. You think people would know that by now. I've seen more than my fair share of tankies waving pro china/Russia symbols around with LGBT and black power content, and I ask them if they actually know what they've done to groups like that in their own countries, lol.

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