A Chinese influence campaign consisting largely of automated social media accounts is spamming messages online to suppress criticism of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, according to a recent report. The pro-China accounts are employing a number of tactics, including flooding Twitter’s #GenocideGames hashtag with spam messages in order to dilute criticism of the Olympics and China itself, according to an analysis by researchers at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub reported by The Wall Street Journal. The tactic is also intended to prevent activists from using the hashtag to mobilize by polluting it with unrelated posts and information. “The Chinese propaganda...