OpenAI Jun 2025 — "Sneer Review" Chinese cross-platform astroturfing against Taiwanese game
Date: 2025-06
Affected: OpenAI ChatGPT; TikTok, X, Reddit, Facebook
Attack vector: tool-abuse
Category: threat-report
Severity: High

Chinese-origin operation "Sneer Review" used ChatGPT to mass-generate short comments in English, Chinese and Urdu posted on TikTok, X, Reddit and Facebook attacking a Taiwanese game where players defeat the CCP, plus an internal performance review of the operation itself.


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