Risky Bulletin Newsletter
August 09, 2023
Risky Biz News: DHS links pro-PRC info-op to Chinese municipal government
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The US Department of Homeland Security has linked a Twitter disinformation campaign to a media organization managed by the municipal government of Chongqing, China's fourth largest city.
The US government says that the Chongqing International Communications Center (CICC) is behind a network of more than 800 Twitter accounts that consistently published anti-US and pro-PRC content.
The DHS says it tracked this network under the name of SPICYPANDA, and it believes it's part of a larger Chinese-backed disinformation effort tracked as DRAGONBRIDGE, or Operation Spamouflage.