A China-based operation sought to sway the US midterms — but failed because the propaganda workers took long lunches and worked 9 to 5. Meta shut it down anyway.
on Tuesday said it took down a China-based disinformation network which sought to influence the US midterms, although it was largely ineffective due to the time difference between the two countries and the propaganda workers' regular working hours.
by Ben Nimmo, Meta's global threat intelligence lead and David Agranovich, the company's director of threat disruption.reported, citing a company executive at a press conference on Tuesday.Specifically, two clusters under the network"targeted both sides of the political spectrum in the US" in the English language.
However, the influence operation was a failure, as the US-focused clusters attracted only"minimal reactions" to their posts. Some of the accounts posting the propaganda messages posted too sporadically and used bad English. Some accounts shared the same post into a few groups on one day, but then didn't post for a week."What they did post included linguistic errors:"I can't live in an America on regression!"" per Meta.
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