Is There a Shadow Economy in Disinformation?

Researchers found networks of social media accounts within disinformation data sets associated with the people's republic of china. They also looked at political campaigns in indanesia that overlap with a commerce and even a kind of aa lobbying by a particular industry groups. The evidence can suggest that perhaps this was a network that offered its services to promote different campaigns, you know, depending on who was interested. So we couldn't definitively attribute this network, but it's certainly part of a growing industry in the asia pacific.

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