Meta says it shuttered thousands of accounts involved in Chinese covert influence operation

Meta said it closed thousands of China-linked accounts on its platforms that were participating in the “largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world.”

The digital influence campaign spread across more than 50 online platforms, including Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, Google’s YouTube, X, TikTok and Reddit, according to Meta’s Adversarial Threat Report for 2023’s second quarter.

Meta said it linked the influence operation to “individuals associated with Chinese law enforcement.”

“This campaign was run by geographically dispersed operators across China who appeared to be centrally provisioned with internet access…