Cyber experts have traced a network of thousands of AI-operated social media accounts to China, amid ongoing fears of foreign interference in the 2024 election.
The network was exposed by cybersecurity firm CyberCX, which found that up to 8,000 fake X accounts had used generative AI to promote “divisive” political content on the platform ahead of the November vote.
The network, named “Green Cicada” by CyberCX, utilized AI to “launder” political content already on the social media site, rewording it as organic posts, retweets and replies in an effort to “amplify organic divisive content on X.”
Since at least April, the network – which CyberCX highlighted was “among the largest publicly-identified networks of inauthentic activity” ever exposed – has operated the 24-hour …