The Five Eyes intelligence alliance warned that China was using LinkedIn and other social media platforms to recruit spies. The alert from the grouping — made up of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US — reflected concern that Beijing is using AI to flood recruitment sites with deceptive offers in order to tap into sensitive data and information. It is part of long-running fears over Chinese espionage in the West more broadly: Britain delayed the approval of a new Chinese embassy complex over worries Beijing would use it for spying, while the FBI warns that Chinese intelligence efforts represent “a grave threat to the economic well-being” of the US. Beijing called the accusations “entirely fabricated and … malicious slander.”