Several cybersecurity and analytics firms sounded the same alarm a month before the midterm elections: the Chinese communist regime sought to influence U.S. voters to inflame partisan infighting and promote China as an example of dictatorship’s superiority over democracy.
Among these firms, Mandiant, a cybersecurity company recently acquired by Google, said they had been tracking an online campaign they named “dragonbridge” since June 2019. Last year, Mandiant observed dragonbridge’s attempt to mobilize street protests in the United States against anti-Asian American sentiment. And the campaign activities expanded to dozens of social media platforms in over seven languages. This year, Mandiant saw more nuanced operations with escalated rhetoric discouraging Americans from voting….