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Information company Graphika accuses “Spammuflage”, a Chinese-influenced campaign, to have incited the fall of the government in Spain, disguising the NGO.
“Spammuflage” is the name why a Chinese government campaign is known that has used thousands of accounts to circulate since 2017 in at least 50 social networking sites and platforms reported to US voters or even legislators. Canadians, as explained by.
In August 2023, one of the goal described the “spammuflage” as “the largest Secret Operation of Influence Known multiplatform in the world, ”ensuring that he was linked to the Chinese security forces.
Now, one from the American information company Graphika and the British Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) ensures that China’s campaign was passed by the Spanish NGO Safeguard Defenders on platforms like Facebook, Tiktok and X, where he will have spread content in English and Spanish that criticized the performance of the government of Spain in view of the floods which, at the end of October and early November 2024, in Valencia.
“This activity shows that Chinese online influence operations are becoming more aggressive in their attempts to manipulate Internal political conversations in Western countries and undermine Beijing critics, ”says Graphika’s information director, Jack Stubbs.
Dozens of accounts will have been used to spread disinformation according to the report. One of the messages, for example, consisted of a video, however deleted, that used the NGO logo to appeal to the fall of the government.
Another fact that left the American company with suspicions was the writing, in some publications, named by Carlos Mazón, president of the Autonomous Community of Valencia, as “Carlos Ma Song”which may be a Chinese direct translation error.
“Since last summer, we have been watching an increase in creativity, technical knowledge and resources dedicated to this campaign Against us, ”accuses the president of Safeguard himself, Laura Harth.
