Google Takes Down Influence Campaigns Tied to China, Indonesia, and Russia
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Google has revealed that it took down 1,320 YouTube channels and 1,177 Blogger blogs as part of a coordinated influence operation connected to the People's Republic of China (PRC). "The coordinated inauthentic network uploaded content in Chinese and English about China and U.S. foreign affairs," Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researcher Billy Leonard said in the company's quarterly bulletin released last week. The tech giant said it also terminated Ads, AdSense, and Blogger accounts linked to two coordinated influence operations with ties to Indonesia that shared content supportive of the ruling party in the country. Another big cluster dismantled by Google involved a network of 378 YouTube channels that it said originated from a Russian consulting firm and disseminated content that projected Russia in a favorable light and denigrated Ukraine and the West. The company further terminated one AdSense account and blocked 10 domains from showing up in Google News and its Discover feed for mobile devices that spawned content in English and Norwegian about food, sports, and lifestyle topics. The coordinated operation, linked to individuals from the Philippines and India, was financially motivated, according to Google. The development comes as OpenAI and Meta revealed that they disrupted an influence operation orchestrated by a Tel Aviv-based political marketing firm called Stoic to propagate pro-Israel messaging in the U.S. and Canada amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza. The campaign began in October post the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas.
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