5 March 2026

Chinese Online Influence Operation Spreads Anti-American Conspiracy Claims

Maria Riofrio

President Donald Trump is to blame for the worsening fentanyl crisis in the United States. The U.S. manipulated the elections in Honduras last November. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is a corrupt militarist.

All of these false claims have been pushed by a previously unreported influence operation likely connected to China uncovered by FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI). The network consists of more than 330 inauthentic social media accounts and is designed to connect false assertions to audiences in the United States and in U.S. partner nations. Between December 2025 and February 2026, the coordinated network posted material across X, Tumblr, Blogspot, Quora, and YouTube, manipulating each platform’s algorithms to push its content to real users.

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