China-Linked Internet Trolls Try Fueling Divisions in U.S. Midterms, Researchers Say - The Wall Street Journal

Internet trolls linked to China are trying to substance governmental part and discord successful the U.S. up of the November midterm elections, suggesting Beijing is funny successful meddling successful American authorities aft mostly abstaining during erstwhile contests, according to researchers astatine Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit.

The efforts, which besides see attempts to make rifts betwixt the U.S. and its European allies astir the warfare successful Ukraine, look to person had minimal interaction truthful far, the researchers said. But they warned the troll group’s tradecraft was rapidly maturing, and the radical seemed intent connected injecting disinformation into Americans’ net feeds successful ways that lucifer past Russian and Iranian efforts to disrupt elections.