Facebook, Twitter can’t find China election meddling
Facebook and Twitter haven’t detected Chinese meddling in the 2018 elections, company officials said, casting doubt on claims by President Trump that the Asian nation is trying to interfere.
The social media giants have reported online disinformation campaigns ahead of the Nov. 6 elections that appear to originate from Russia and Iran. But officials from both companies said they have not found evidence so far of such activity from China.
“When we think about China, we haven’t seen the same sort of coordinated operations involving information operations as we have from the other nation states,” Nathaniel Gleicher, head of cybersecurity policy at Facebook, told reporters Wednesday in Washington.