China’s Spamouflage cranks up trolling of US Senator Rubio as election day looms

China's Spamouflage disinformation crew has been targeting US Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) with its fake news campaigns over the past couple of months, trolling the Republican lawmaker's official X account and posting negative stories about Rubio on Reddit and Medium. This is according to Clemson University researchers …

[Anonymous Coward]

Twins, or not twins?

Cruz and Rubio couldn't be more different from one another indeed. Cruz is the one who flies to Cancún whenever his State unergoes a winter disaster. Rubio is the one who votes to deny storm relief funds to other States before pushing to get more storm recovery aid for his own.

Then again, it may be understandable how their outstandingly selfless altruism and moral rectitude makes them rather indistinguishable from one another to the Spamouflage disinfo crew ... _(barf!)

[Anonymous Coward]

Spamouflage

<troll> Isn't Spamouflage just trying to deflect from those stories about Xi being a pedophile? </troll>

[Paul Herber]

Re: Spamouflage

Was he caught in a honey-trap?

[Ace2]

Have they taken the opportunity to mock Rubio’s ladyboots yet?

[sitta_europea]

The PRC needs to learn that no publicity is bad publicity.

All they're doing is making people more aware of the existence of the candidates.

When it comes to the voting, a large fraction of voters will just vote for the name that's most familiar.

Yeah, democracy sucks but so far nobody seems to have come up with anything better.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

People will, on the language of the mother country, "Vote for a donkey if you put a blue rosette on it"

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Foreign interference

This is unacceptable, if we want lies about political candidates we have proper American media from Rupert Murdoch.

[MalIlluminated]

But they made some major mistakes that were likely noticed...

The target audience believes that forest fires are started by space lasers and that hurricanes are caused by the Weather Dominator from GI Joe. It's hard for me to imagine that they noticed.