Over 50,000 Google accounts supporting pro-Chinese propaganda, anti-US views blocked
Google stated these social media accounts usually "share contents, which are pro-China views and included a higher volume of content critical of the US."
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Google blocked more than 50,000 pieces of content shared by pro-China accounts last year across various platforms like YouTube, Blogger, and AdSense, the company said.
Meta and Twitter have also removed such fake content from China that looks and sounds very similar to Dragonbridge's efforts.
Google's Threat Analysis Group has also terminated 100,900 Dragon bridge accounts since 2019, according to a statement released by Googlers Zak Butler and Jonas Taege.
They also stated Dragon bridge usually "share contents, which are pro-China views and included a higher volume of content critical of the US." The group has primarily targeted Chinese speakers, but some narratives were in English and other languages, it said in a statement.
Dragonbridge is a pro-China, anti-US group that, among other things, tried to meddle in the 2022 American midterm elections and trolled rare-earth mining companies using thousands of phony social media accounts, prompting a stern warning by the Pentagon.
Even they shifted some of its focus toward White House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after she made a visit to Taiwan.
Despite pumping out a ton of fake content, Dragonbridge has captured little attention.
Now, TAG disabled 53,177 Dragonbridge YouTube channels last year. Of these, "58 percent had zero subscribers and 42 percent of their videos had zero views," Butler and Taege wrote, adding that 83 percent of those videos had less than 100 views.
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