1/ The CCP is ramping up its cyber-enabled interference in 🇦🇺 public discourse about domestic and foreign policy and it's gaining engagement from real users online #AusPol #Qanda 2/ In a new two-part Strategist article, @DaniellesCave and I expose a new coordinated inauthentic campaign targeting particular 🇦🇺 individuals and institutions, which we assess is likely linked to the CCP aspistrategist.org.au/chinas-cyber-i…

1/ New report from @DaniellesCave and I: 🇨🇳 cyber-enabled foreign interference continues to target women of Asian descent without consequential intervention from policymakers or social media platforms aspistrategist.org.au/musks-twitter-… 2/ We find that new iterations of the CCP-linked Spamouflage network - which Twitter attributed to the Chinese government in 2019 - are likely behind these ongoing harassment and trolling campaigns.

1/ Chinese state-linked inauthentic accounts appear to be flooding multiple social media and content platforms, including TikTok & SoundCloud, with pro-Chinese police content. The goal presumably is to bury Safeguard Defender's latest report on Chinese transnational policing 2/ On 12 September 2022, @SafeguardDefend, a human rights NGO based in Madrid, Spain, published an investigation into Chinese transnational policing tools for coercing claimed fugitives to return to China. Read the report here: safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/230000…

1/ In the mad rush to push out CCP propaganda on Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, SPAMOUFLAGE/DRAGONBRIDGE accounts are mistakenly sharing links to the Google Translated page (from English to simplified Chinese) of articles involving Pelosi

https://twitter.com/HarryMi57630819/status/1557180274261237762

2/ Ironically, the network is amplifying a FactChecking article that is countering misinformation and disinformation around Pelosi's expenses. The operators of these accounts are probably not carefully reading the articles but are amplifying anything that mentions Pelosi

1/ 'Digital repression across borders is on the rise.' A short update on @aspi research on transnational repression 👇 technologyreview.com/2022/07/08/105… 2/ Digital repression isn't a technological problem - it's an authoritarian one. According to @freedomhouse, 'China conducts the most sophisticated, global, and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression in the world.' freedomhouse.org/sites/default/…

1/ The Chinese Communist Party has a problem with smart Asian women. See my latest Strategist article co-authored with my colleague @DaniellesCave aspistrategist.org.au/smart-asian-wo… 2/ For months now, some of the world's leading China journalists and human rights activists have been the targets of an ongoing, coordinated and large-scale information and silencing campaign.

1/ In addition to 🇯🇵 missile units, pro-CCP accounts have been expanding the scope of their information operations this year. Here's a thread on the latest narratives being disseminated: (1) 'Milk Tea Alliance' on Covid-19's origin (2) #Accelerationism (3) US cultural invasion

https://twitter.com/AlbertYZhang/status/1516282956456751110

2/ Firstly, hundreds of pro-CCP are spamming a Tumblr article published under the name of the 'Milk Tea Alliance'. It's unlikely the 'Milk Tea Alliance' would actually publish such a document since it is a democracy and human rights movement and not an organisation.

🚨 A thread on Adnow LLP and its subsidiary, FAZZE, an advertising agency linked to 🇷🇺 offering 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 influencers money to undermine the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine with negative fake stories 👇 This is not a comprehensive investigation but identifies some leads:
1. Adnow LLP was likely a shell company set up by a
🇷🇺 company registration service
2. A registered address of Adnow is linked to money launderers and BTC-e - a cryptocurrency platform used by 🇷🇺 intel agencies

After @arielbogle started seeing multiple accounts being created on the day Lijian Zhao posted the provoking tweet just to interact with the tweet, we took a deeper dive

https://twitter.com/arielbogle/status/1333356571565256704?s=20

As of 12:45PM 2nd December 2020, Lijian Zhao's tweet has over 18K replies, 15K retweets (including quoted retweets) and 54K likes.