Chinese Election Interference

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Sep 7, 2023.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    So someone explain to me why both our adversaries Russia and China want Trump to win in 2024?

    Suspected Chinese operatives using AI generated images to spread disinformation among US voters, Microsoft says
    https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/chinese-operatives-ai-images-social-media/index.html

    Suspected Chinese operatives have used images made by artificial intelligence to mimic American voters online in an attempt to spread disinformation and provoke discussion on divisive political issues as the 2024 US election approaches, Microsoft analysts warned Thursday.

    In the last nine months, the operatives have posted striking AI-made images depicting the Statute of Liberty and the Black Lives Matter movement on social media, in a campaign that Microsoft said focuses on “denigrating U.S. political figures and symbols.”

    The alleged Chinese influence network used a series of accounts on “Western” social media platforms to upload the AI-generated images, according to Microsoft. The images were fake and generated by a computer, but real people, whether wittingly or unwittingly, propagated the images by reposting them on social media, Microsoft said.

    Microsoft said the social media accounts were “affiliated” with the Chinese Communist Party.

    The growing potential for adversaries to use AI to sow disinformation among US voters is an acute concern for election officials as they prepare for a contentious possible 2024 rematch between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump.

    The concern is that foreign operatives will amplify an already-ripe domestic information environment. 69% of Republicans and Republican-leaners still say Biden’s 2020 win was not legitimate, according to a CNN poll in July.

    “We can expect China to continue to hone this technology over time and improve its accuracy, though it remains to be seen how and when it will deploy it at scale,” Clint Watts, general manager of Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center, wrote in a blog.

    The growing potential for adversaries to use AI to sow disinformation among US voters is an acute concern for election officials as they prepare for a contentious possible 2024 rematch between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump.

    The concern is that foreign operatives will amplify an already-ripe domestic information environment. 69% of Republicans and Republican-leaners still say Biden’s 2020 win was not legitimate, according to a CNN poll in July.

    “We can expect China to continue to hone this technology over time and improve its accuracy, though it remains to be seen how and when it will deploy it at scale,” Clint Watts, general manager of Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center, wrote in a blog.

    Ahead of the 2022 US midterm elections, Russian and Chinese government-affiliated operatives and organizations promoted misinformation about the integrity of American elections that originated in the US, senior FBI officials have said.

    More evidence of Chinese influence operations aimed at sowing discord in the US has emerged in recent months.

    Pro-Beijing operatives paid a handful of unwitting Americans to protest in the US about racial inequality and a US ban on goods produced in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, researchers from security firm Mandiant said in July.

    Meanwhile, Facebook parent company Meta last month said it had taken down the largest known “cross-platform covert influence operation” it had ever seen; thousands of China-based social media accounts that targeted audiences in the US, Taiwan and elsewhere. Meta investigators tied the activity to people “associated with Chinese law enforcement,” but said the influence campaign received little engagement from real social media users.
     
  2. Ricter

    Ricter

    Why? Because Biden and his kind are toeing the MIC shareholders' line and drumming up a war with China.
     
  3. mervyn

    mervyn

    i don’t buy it, neither is a good manchurian candidate, maybe msft and fb are hyping it up for its products or mistaken by our own, the worst it is a planted story.
     
  4. notagain

    notagain

    Both countries are commies, the dems are commies so why don't the commies join together and take over the world.
    The answer is Raytheon's profit margin and the dem's tribe is separate from Russia or China.
    Tribes are parasites, feeding off their own country.
     
  5. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    Xi is going into a period where the old standard of distract your population with nationalism is needed and Trump will be a lot better while still being harmless to actively good for China like the trade tariffs that only Americans paid.
     
  6. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    While foreign countries such as China and Russia attempted to interfere with the 2022 U.S. midterm elections; they were not successful.

    "The departments found "no evidence" that "any detected activity prevented voting, changed votes, or disrupted the ability to tally votes or to transmit election results in a timely manner; altered any technical aspect of the voting process; or otherwise compromised the integrity of voter registration information or any ballots cast during 2022 federal elections."


    'No evidence' foreign government affected 'integrity' of 2022 midterms: DOJ
    https://abc7chicago.com/no-evidence-foreign-government-affected-integrity-of-2022-midte/14199919/