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China-connected spamouflage networks spread antisemitic disinformation
Inauthentic accounts on X post conspiracy theories claiming Jewish influence controls Washington and presidential candidates
"You can trace its origins back to the Cold War, when the Soviet Union promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories all over the world just to instigate in Western societies," Gering said, "because it divides them from within and it casts the West in a bad light in a strategic competition. An article that received thousands of likes and reposts on Chinese social media app WeChat claims that "Jewish capital" has completed its control of the American political sphere "through infiltration, marriages, campaign funds and lobbying." When asked about it at a news conference last year, Wang Wenbin, then the spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry, said that "China's laws unequivocally prohibit disseminating information on extremism, ethnic hatred, discrimination and violence via the internet."
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