China is using the world's largest known online disinformation operation to harass Americans, a CNN review finds | CNN
www.cnn.com
The Chinese government has built up the world’s largest known online disinformation operation and is using it to harass US residents, politicians, and businesses—at times threatening its targets with violence, a CNN review of court documents and public disclosures by social media companies has found.

Watch out folks, they’ve got conference rooms unofficial police stations here and they’re cyberbullying anticommunists on Zoom threatening American citizens. We know because the US Justice Department and Meta told us so

Other posts by the network have referenced how “racism is an indelible shame on American democracy” and how the US committed “cultural genocide against the Indians,” according to a Meta report in August. Another post claimed that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is “riddled with scandals.”

This whole long-ass article is a work of art

archive link

  • 新星 [they/them/🏳️‍⚧️]English
    6·
    8 months ago

    The article itself is a great dunk, but the lemmy.world comments are even better.

    Take this one:

    Nono tankies aren’t Chinese operators, they’re CIA, tasked to discredit the left. That’s important because they’d be proud of the former but are enraged by the latter.

    • Judge_Jury [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      Its parent comment is great too, maybe tagline material

      I can’t prove it, but my hunch is a lot of the obnoxious people I argue with online, who seem unable to see reason or resist devolving to insults and twisting my words, are actually foreign operatives tasked with depleting American morale