Meta Removes Over 7,000 Fake Accounts Linked to Chinese Propaganda Campaign

san franciscoMeta has removed thousands of Facebook and several Instagram accounts linked to the Chinese propaganda campaign. In total, Meta removed 7,704 Facebook accounts, 954 Pages, 15 groups and 15 Instagram accounts, making it the largest number of fake accounts ever discovered by the company. Became one of the big network.

According to the tech giant, the fake accounts tried to spread pro-China messages, including positive remarks about China and its province of Xinjiang, and criticism of the US, Western foreign policies and critics of the Chinese government, including journalists and researchers.

“We recently removed thousands of accounts and Pages that were part of the largest cross-platform covert influence operation in the world,” Meta said in a blogpost on Tuesday. These include Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Pinterest, Medium, Blogspot, LiveJournal, VKontakte, Vimeo and dozens of smaller platforms and forums.

Meta also confirmed that it found evidence linking the fake account to a previously known pro-China influence operation that first surfaced in 2019, called Spamoflaze. Meta claimed that the people behind the fake account were viral. was not particularly efficient or successful in his endeavours.

Meta said, Spamouflage constantly struggled to reach beyond its echo chamber. Many of the comments we’ve seen on spamouflage posts come from other spamouflage accounts trying to pretend they’re more popular than they used to be.’

The company noted that the network targeted multiple regions globally, including Taiwan, the US, Australia, the UK, Japan, and a global Chinese-speaking audience. Meanwhile, Meta introduced additional transparency features on threads, including state-controlled media. This includes labeling accounts and showing additional information about accounts so that people can identify them.