Meta pins pro-China influence campaign Spamouflage on Chinese law enforcement

Facebook parent company Meta said on Tuesday it had uncovered links between people associated with Chinese law enforcement and a long-running but largely ineffectual operation to positively influence people on social media about China.

The social media giant removed around 7,700 Facebook accounts and hundreds of other pages, groups and Instagram accounts connected to the so-called “Spamouflage” campaign, elements of which have been active since 2018, it said in a quarterly security report.