China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Unit 61398, based in Shanghai, has been publicly linked to extensive cyber-espionage operations targeting U.S. government agencies, defense contractors, and major corporations. Image generated by AI. When wildfires swept across Maui, Hawaii, in August 2023, pro-China operatives launched an extensive disinformation campaign using AI-generated images and fabricated stories to claim that the U.S. military had used a “weather weapon” to start the fires. The operation involved at least 85 social media accounts and blogs traced to China, spreading content in 25 languages across platforms including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and numerous other sites. Researchers from Microsoft, RAND Corporation, and other organizations confirmed that the campaign originated from China and represented one of the first known uses of artificial intelligence to enhance…
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