This bulletin consists of coordinated affect operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q3 2024. It was final up to date on September 12, 2024.
July
- We terminated 89 YouTube channels as a part of our investigation into coordinated affect operations linked to Ecuador. The marketing campaign was sharing content material in Spanish about Mexican and Ecuadorian politics.
- We blocked 10 domains from eligibility to look on Google Information surfaces and Uncover as a part of our investigation into coordinated affect operations linked to entities working in the USA. The affect operations marketing campaign was sharing content material in English that sought to steer voters to run for elected positions as impartial candidates. We obtained leads from Meta that supported us on this investigation.
- We terminated 27 YouTube channels as a part of our investigation into coordinated affect operations linked to Russia. The marketing campaign was sharing content material in English, Polish, French and Russian that was supportive of Russia and significant of Ukraine and Western establishments. We obtained leads from OpenAI that supported us on this investigation.
- We blocked 25 domains from eligibility to look on Google Information surfaces and Uncover as a part of our investigation into coordinated affect operations linked to Russia. The marketing campaign was linked to the actor publicly tracked as Doppelganger and was sharing content material in English, German and French about information and present occasions within the US, Western Europe, Ukraine, Russia and the Center East.
- We terminated 26 YouTube channels as a part of our investigation into coordinated affect operations linked to Russia. The marketing campaign was sharing content material in Russian that was supportive of Russia and significant of Ukraine and the West.
- We terminated 1 Blogger weblog as a part of our investigation into coordinated affect operations linked to Russia. The marketing campaign was linked to the Web Analysis Company (IRA) and was sharing content material in Russian that was supportive of Russia and significant of Ukraine.
- We terminated 34 YouTube channels and 1 Advertisements account as a part of our investigation into coordinated affect operations linked to Russia. The marketing campaign was sharing content material in Russian, Spanish, German and English that was supportive of Russia and significant of the West.
- We terminated 18 YouTube channels as a part of our investigation into coordinated affect operations linked to Russia. The marketing campaign was sharing content material in English that was supportive of Russia and significant of the U.S.
- We terminated 5 YouTube channels as a part of our investigation into coordinated affect operations linked to Russia. The marketing campaign was sharing content material in French, Arabic and Spanish that was supportive of Russia and significant of the West.
- We terminated 12 YouTube channels and 1 Advertisements account as a part of our investigation into coordinated affect operations linked to Russia. The marketing campaign was sharing content material in Polish, German, Italian, English, Hungarian, Czech and Dari that was supportive of Russia and significant of the West.
- We terminated 7,319 YouTube channels as a part of our investigation into coordinated affect operations linked to Russia. The marketing campaign was linked to a Russian consulting agency and was sharing content material in Russian that was supportive of Russia and significant of Ukraine and the West.
- We blocked 13 domains from eligibility to look on Google Information surfaces and Uncover as a part of our investigation into coordinated affect operations linked to Russia. The marketing campaign was sharing content material in English that was supportive of Russia and significant of Ukraine and the West.
- We blocked 7 domains from eligibility to look on Google Information surfaces and Uncover as a part of our investigation into coordinated affect operations linked to Russia. The marketing campaign was sharing content material in Russian that was supportive of Russia and significant of Ukraine and the West.
- We terminated 583 YouTube channels as a part of our investigation into coordinated affect operations linked to Azerbaijan. The marketing campaign was sharing content material in Azerbaijani that was supportive of Azerbaijan and significant of Armenia and critics of the Azerbaijani authorities.
- We terminated 5,554 YouTube channels and 15 Blogger blogs and blocked 4 domains from eligibility to look on Google Information surfaces and Uncover as a part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated affect operations linked to the Individuals’s Republic of China (PRC). The coordinated inauthentic community uploaded content material in Chinese language and English about China and U.S. overseas affairs. These findings are according to our earlier stories.
