Spamouflage Diaries.
Blending in ✅

Both accounts appear to use AI generated profile pictures and try to pass themselves off as American citizens. The two accounts frequently amplify PRC state media and also interact with other Spamouflage accounts on our tracking list.

Graph 1 shows that @smith_seattle1’s views rose along with @hnfsnet.

Graph 2 shows that @smith_seattle1’s posts that were amplified by @hnfsnet outperformed its other posts.

Other Spamouflage accounts also benefit from this spillover effect. @hnfsnet frequently reposts @seattle_smith1, an account that supports Trump, exposes US domestic issues, and promotes the PRC. 75% of @seattle_smith1’s most top 20 most viewed posts were amplified by @hnfsnet.

Spamouflage turns to street fight videos for traffic... It's working.

@hnfsnet mixes street fight videos with pro-PRC posts. The account went viral several times, with one street fight video gaining over 9M views.

There appears to be spillover to pro-PRC posts. One post obtained 98K views.

A great example of an AI-empowered influence operation.
A Spamouflage account on X likely used AI translation and text-to-speech software to convert a Chinese Baidu post into spoken english.

This is just one of the highlights from our latest report on the US election.

In one of the top comments, another Big V account mentions that they hope the streets in Washington D.C. will be full of people doing a three-finger salute during Trump's inauguration in January, 2025.

A Big V blogger on Weibo just shared a TikTok video of a Georgian protestor overlaid with a speech from the Hunger Games. The blogger asserts that the CIA frequently uses symbols from the Hunger Games such as the three-finger salute to stoke protests around the world.