More than 150 posts from 29 accounts on three days in Aug 2024 sought to draw the attention of UK anti-immigrant groups and the far right to Finn Lau and other Hong Kong exiles. The posts exhibited some similarities to a major online influence operation that a security agency is suspected of orchestrating.
Online incitement appears to represent a novel weapon in the arsenal that projects Beijing’s power.
“We had Hongkongers in refugee hotels. Some of them were extremely scared.”
https://theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/28/revealed-online-campaign-urged-far-right-to-attack-chinas-opponents-in-uk…