The tweet from the son of a former Liberal premier seemed innocuous enough at first.
by researchers Albert Zhang and Danielle Cave at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute on Monday.ASPI found the Chinese government’s cyber-enabled foreign interference is increasingly disseminating propaganda and disinformation across local issues in the West. The goal is to amplify division and undermine Western claims about human rights abuses in China.
“Many accounts in this campaign switch back and forth between targeting audiences and political topics in Australia and the United States,” the researchers said. The tactics are a well-known tool of Beijing’s cyber influence operations as it looks to shape opinion at home and abroad.that Chinese government accounts were fuelling the viral rise of chubby Winter Olympics Games mascot Bing Dwen Dwen as the embodiment of a “loveable China” while pushing down more controversial human rights topics such as Xinjiang and Uighurs in online algorithms.
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