Google took down over 50,000 pieces of content shared by a pro-China online disinformation campaign known as “Dragonbridge” across various platforms over the past year, the company’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said on Jan. 26.
These contents were removed from YouTube, Blogger, and AdSense. TAG said in a statement that a total of 100,960 Dragonbridge accounts had been terminated since the campaign was discovered in 2019.
The U.S. tech giant identifies Dragonbridge as “a spammy influence network linked to China,” which posts mostly low-quality content with no political message and has accounts on multiple platforms.
TAG said that Dragonbridge narratives in 2022 ranged from China’s COVID-19 response to the war in Ukraine, including “a higher volume of content critical of the United States.”…