REUTERS: Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc said on Monday they had dismantled a state-backed social media campaign originating in mainland China that sought to undermine protests in Hong Kong.
Social media companies globally are under pressure to stem illicit political influence campaigns online, especially ahead of the U.S. election in November 2020. A 22-month U.S. investigation concluded Russia interfered in a"sweeping and systematic fashion" in the 2016 U.S. election to help Donald Trump win the presidency.
In examples provided by Facebook, posts described the protesters as cockroaches who"refused to show their faces." In the past week, China's official Xinhua news agency and state broadcaster China Global Television Network paid to promote videos that portrayed the protests as violent and said Hong Kong citizens wanted the demonstrations to end, according to Twitter's Ads Transparency Center.
Total digital ad spending in Hong Kong will grow 11per cent to reach US$786.1 million in 2019, according to projections by U.S. digital market data analyst eMarketer.
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