Google Removes Over 50,000 Contents Promoting Pro-China Disinformation

An unnamed Chinese hacker using his computer at their office in Dongguan, in China's southern Guangdong Province, on Aug. 4, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images

Google took down over 50,000 pieces of content shared by a pro-China online disinformation campaign known as “Dragonbridge” across various platforms over the past year, the company’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said on Jan. 26.

These contents were removed from YouTube, Blogger, and AdSense. TAG said in a statement that a total of 100,960 Dragonbridge accounts had been terminated since the campaign was discovered in 2019.