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Pro-Chinese agents pose as activists on social media to protest Canadian rare earth mine

Cybersecurity experts say fake accounts created to give China miners competitive advantage

Pro-Chinese agents posed as concerned local residents on social media to try to spark protests over the opening of rare earth mines in the U.S. and Canada, cybersecurity researchers said in a new report.

The fake Twitter and Facebook accounts were created to give China, the largest producer of rare earth minerals, a competitive advantage, cybersecurity research company Mandiant disclosed on Tuesday.

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