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Microsoft: China Uses AI to Sow Disinformation and Discord Around the World
A new report by Microsoft Threat Intelligence outlines how China’s influence operations have ramped up their use of artificial intelligence.
Faking a political endorsement in Taiwan ahead of its crucial January election, sharing memes to amplify outrage over Japan’s disposal of nuclear wastewater, and spreading conspiracy theories that claim the U.S. government was behind Hawaii’s wildfire and Kentucky’s train derailment last year. Last August, Storm-1376 launched a multilingual “large-scale, aggressive messaging campaign,” including through AI-generated memes, to amplify Chinese propaganda and stoke international public anger—especially among South Koreans —over Japan’s disposal of nuclear wastewater from Fukushima last year. FBI director Christopher Wray warned a congressional committee in January about Chinese hackers targeting critical U.S. infrastructure such as water treatment plants, electric grids, energy pipelines, and transportation.
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