Several cybersecurity and analytics firms sounded the same alarm a month before the midterm elections: The Chinese communist regime sought to influence U.S. voters to inflame partisan infighting and promote China as an example of dictatorship’s superiority over democracy.
Among these firms, Mandiant, a cybersecurity company recently acquired by Google, said that it had been tracking an online campaign named “Dragonbridge” since June 2019. Last year, Mandiant observed Dragonbridge’s attempt to mobilize street protests in the United States against some anti-Asian American sentiment; the campaign’s activities expanded to dozens of social media platforms in more than seven languages.
