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Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in its latest published bulletin, provides an outline of the entire “coordinated influence operation” that its staff tracked in January 2022 involving multiple countries.
According to Google TAG, four YouTube channels, two AdSense accounts, 1 Blogger blog, and 6 domains from – used to generate revenue by displaying advertisements – were wiped out in coordinated influence operations linked to Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine. The campaign “was sharing content in English that was about a variety of topics including US and European current events,” threat analysts explained.
To mitigate the spread of misinformation, Google TAG terminated 3 YouTube channels responsible for uploading content in Arabic that was critical of former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir and supportive of the 2019 Sudanese coup d’état.
Additionally, Google TAG also handled a relatively large “influence operation linked to China.” Earlier this year in January, threat analysts terminated 4,361 YouTube channels for spreading Chinese spam content. However, some channels uploaded content in both English and Chinese languages concerning China and US foreign events.
“We terminated 4361 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China. These channels mostly uploaded spammy content in Chinese about music, enterta
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