X Scrubs Accounts Linked to Chinese Communist Party
Social media platform X has been removing thousands of accounts from its platform over the past month with apparent ties to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party).
The Times said it was involved in an investigation of thousands of fake accounts on X that had one apparent focus — getting more attention directed at posts supportive of the CCP's international objectives.
Those objectives, according to the Times, range from a broad-reaching attempt to influence American voters in the 2024 elections, to more targeted information posts aimed at specific organizations that are not aligned with the CCP.
The Times report said Meta, the parent organization operating Facebook and Instagram, revealed it was working in 2024 to target thousands of accounts that may have been directly controlled by the CCP on a variety of platforms, "that were part of what appears to be the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world.”