China is using fake social media accounts to sow division in elections and has increased its use of AI-generated content to further its goals around the world. These are among the Microsoft Threat Intelligence insights in the latest East Asia report published today by the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC)
  • hackerwacker@lemmy.ml
    202·
    2 years ago

    What a bunch of removed clowns

    Deceptive social media accounts by Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-affiliated actors have started to pose contentious questions on controversial U.S. domestic issues to better understand the key issues that divide U.S. voters. This could be to gather intelligence and precision on key voting demographics ahead of the U.S. presidential election.

    People put questions in posts to elicit replies to increase engagement metrics so the post is shown to more people, not to “gather intelligence and precision on key voting demographics ahead of the U.S. presidential election.”

    Whole article reads like some AI fantasy