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🛡️ Défis et « opportunités » de l’intelligence artificielle dans la lutte contre les manipulations de l’information, un rapport de VIGINUM de février 2025

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I. L’IA, une technologie utilisée par les acteurs de la menace informationnelle

II. Enjeux et perspectives de l’impact de l’IA sur la menace informationnelle

III. L’IA comme opportunité en appui des opérations de lutte contre les manipulations de l’info

👉 https://www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/files/files/Publications/20250207_NP_SGDSN_VIGINUM_Rapport%20menace%20informationnelle%20IA_VF.pdf

#IA #intégrité #information #spamouflage #deepdoubt

While impersonating protesters criticizing flood relief efforts in Spain, a Chinese social media operation that aims to whip up political anger in the West called for Madrid's government to be overthrown. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/30/world/politics/chinese-online-influence-spain/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #spamouflage #misinformation #china #spain

〝Patterns across groups of pages strongly suggested someone created the accounts in batches. Of the 124 inauthentic “Denise Jones” pages, 19 shared the name “Denise Jones Online” followed by a five-digit number. Many “Denise Jones” pages also included identical page descriptions. For example, 18 of them use the tagline “Hi there, want more beer?” in their description.〞

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/10/10/nip-the-bots-in-the-bud/

#Spamouflage #infops #disinfo #botnets #authenticity #socialMedia #platforms

〝The batch accounts — the 10 new accounts — are not very active. Each account has roughly 100 posts or reposts over the last two years. The batch accounts were inactive for one year but were awoken after the first Trump assassination attempt.〞
https://www.voanews.com/a/china-s-influence-campaign-intensifies-as-us-election-nears/7788292.html

#China #PRC #USA #America #elections #infops #Spamouflage #MAGAflage #Trump

〝The accounts Graphika identified bore many hallmarks of Spamouflage activity, including coordinated posting and sharing content that has previously been linked to the operation. Some accounts occasionally slipped up and posted in Chinese. One account on X, calling itself “Common fireman,” was previously branded as a pro-China media outlet, Graphika said.〞
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/03/nx-s1-5096151/china-tiktok-x-fake-voters-influence-campaign

#TikTok #platforms #disinfo #inauthentic #Spamouflage #China #PRC #America #USA #infops

Learned a new word today to describe fake emails, texts, and other online misinformation. Saw it in an AP news story. #Spamouflage

Chinese Influence Operation Spamouflage Targets U.S. Ahead of 2024 Election https://thecyberexpress.com/chinese-operation-spamouflage-2024-election/ #TheCyberExpressNews #CybersecurityNews #TheCyberExpress #FirewallDaily #KamalaHarris #DonaldTrump #Spamouflage #American #Election #Chinese

OpenAI stopped 5 campaigns that used its tech for ‘deceptive influence’ - The AI firm has terminated accounts linked to several alleged foreign co... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/openai-disrupts-global-influence-operations-abusing-ai-tech #influenceoperations #contentgeneration #covertcampaigns #aimanipulation #disinformation #doppelganger #virtualmedia #spamouflage #badgrammar #chatgpt #openai

Why China Is So Bad at Disinformation https://www.wired.com/story/china-bad-at-disinformation/ #Politics/Disinformation #spamouflage

Why China Is So Bad at Disinformation - China’s state-sponsored disinformation campaign has been running at a massive scale for s... - https://www.wired.com/story/china-bad-at-disinformation/ #politics/disinformation #spamouflage

…researchers linked the new activity to a long-running network of accts connected w/ #China’s govt known as #Spamouflage. Several of the accts…previously posted pro-Beijing content in Mandarin— only to recently resurface under the guise of #Americans writing in English.
In a separate proj, the Foundation for #Defense of #Democracies …ID’ed 170 fake pgs & accts on #Facebook that have also pushed anti-American msgs, incl’g pointed attacks on #Biden.
[they clearly see Biden as a threat, not #Trump]

"The long-running influence campaign suspected to be run by the #CCP and often referred to as ‘#Spamouflage’ is already pivoting to focus on the expected competition between President Joe #Biden and Republican forerunner Donald #Trump. Spamouflage has been active since at least 2017. In April 2023 the US Department of Justice charged 40 employees of the #Chinese Ministry of Public Security’s 912 Special Projects Working Group for their involvement..."

https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/pro-ccp-spamouflage-net-work-focuses-on-us-election/

#natsec

〝Through the use of real images, videos, news articles and AI-generated images, the network is creating propaganda targeting US and international audiences through fake accounts on Western social media platforms (mostly on X, but also on Facebook and YouTube).〞
https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-in-the-news/pro-ccp-network-capitalises-on-the-israel-hamas-conflict-to-target-western-audiences-shifting-toward-us-elections/

#propaganda #AI #genAI #Spamouflage #China #PRC

〝In recent years, the group has evolved. For instance, it adopted artificial intelligence-generated avatars last year to make their profiles seem more realistic and used deepfake news anchors to share bogus articles, according to Graphika.〞
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-15/pro-chinese-spamouflage-dragon-has-penetrated-social-media

#propaganda #inauthentic #Spamouflage #China #PRC #spam #socialMedia

📜🇨🇳 China is using the world’s largest known online disinformation operation to harass Americans, a CNN review finds

「[...] the network uses a unique strategy of “flooding” conversations with so many comments that posts from genuine users receive less attention. This includes posting on platforms typically not associated with disinformation, such as Pinterest.

“They are operating thousands of accounts at a time on a given platform, often to drown out conversations, just with sheer volume of messaging,” Linvill said. “When we think of disinformation, we often think of pushing ideas on users and making ideas more salient, whereas what China is doing is the opposite. They are trying to remove conversations from social media.” 」

i.e. what MAGA-Bannon called "flooding the zone with shit".

Check out the hashtags #china ('normalization') or #humanrights for channels the Chinese dictatorship would find touchy... 🧐

「 When Beijing hosted the 2022 Winter Olympics, for example, human rights groups began promoting the hashtag #GenocideGames to bring attention to accusations that China has detained more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in internment camps.

But then something surprising happened. Accounts that Linvill and his colleagues believed were part of Spamouflage started tweeting the hashtag too.

It might be counterintuitive for a pro-Chinese government group to start spreading a hashtag that brought attention to the Chinese government’s human rights’ abuses, Linvill explained. But by using the hashtag repeatedly in tweets that had nothing to do with the issue itself, Spamouflage was able to reduce views on the legitimate messages. 」

Ah, the good old #genocide. Everybody does it, right??

Even more succinct example would be the hyperbolic #GenocideJoe. Yes, #JoeBiden can be simultaneously "sleepy" and a genocidal maniac.

(For not somehow overruling Netanyahu who, incidentally, *was* certified "buddies-in-disruption" with the likes of CCP, Putin and Trump... 🤷🏻‍♂️ )

The userbase of that #GenocideJoe hashtag is about 100% 🎯️ in line with the Bannon method. The #farright and #farleft ("#tankies") both seek the same objective and 'useful idiots' to follow them.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/11/13/us/china-online-disinformation-invs/index.html

#spamouflage #disinformation #misinformation #natsec #ccp #china #propaganda #maga

Global News BC: B.C. man alleges he was targeted by China’s ‘spamouflage’ campaign https://globalnews.ca/news/10062933/china-spamouflage-attack-canada/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Chinaforeigninterference #CanadaChina #spamouflage #Politics #Canada #Tech

It is difficult to be an independent immigration country.

The right wing in Canada called #Trudeau pro-China a few years ago when Trudeau visited some Chinese communities in Canada. Yet #China just launched a #spamouflage campaign against his government.

#Canada is also struggling with #India over the assassination of an Indian immigrant in Canada who was declared a terrorist by the Indian government.

#HateCrimes have been on the rise for the past ten year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqgJA1ztXcE

加拿大對中國干預內政作出新的指控，表示中國在8、9月發動「垃圾訊息偽裝」 #spamouflage 攻勢，抹黑幾十名國會議員，包括總理 Justin Trudeau 和在野保守黨黨魁 Pierre Poilievre

http://europechinese.blogspot.com/2023/10/89.html

@fergusryan 📜☝️ Latest #ASPI report on online mischief: ☭🇨🇳

「How were we able to confidently predict this? Because back in 2018, ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming stated on the record that he would ensure his products served to promote the CCP’s propaganda agenda. In fact, as we noted in our 2020 report, ByteDance works closely with PRC public security bureaus to not just disseminate that propaganda, but to actually produce it in the first place.」

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#tiktok #Australia #natsec #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda #Spamouflage #CCP #china #bytedance

Une opération de #desinformation chinoise de grande ampleur démantelée par #Meta.
Baptisée "#Spamouflage", cette campagne d’envergure utilisait des milliers de comptes et de pages pour critiquer les Etats-Unis et l’Occident, ainsi que pour vanter les mérites de la #Chine.
https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2023/08/29/une-operation-de-desinformation-chinoise-de-grande-ampleur-demantelee-par-meta_6186947_4408996.html