Canada: lawmakers targeted by China-linked ‘Spamouflage’ disinformation

Canada on Monday warned of a “Spamouflage” disinformation campaign linked to China that used waves of online posts and deepfake videos manipulated to try to disparage and discredit Canadian lawmakers. The Global Affairs department said in a statement it had “detected a ‘Spamouflage’ campaign connected to the People’s Republic of China.” The bot network, according […]

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