AI agents now run influence campaigns from account creation to coordination
Iran, China, and private Israeli firms have used Chinese open-source models with autonomous bots to run social-media influence operations, reducing the human work needed to create fake accounts and coordinate messages. The agents can handle the operation end to end, spinning up fictitious profiles across Instagram, Facebook, X, and TikTok before distributing fabricated content. That makes coordinated manipulation cheaper to scale and harder to separate from ordinary posting.