However, the earliest form of Internet propaganda supporting CPVN seems to have begun in 2007,[1] when the Government announced to "eliminate any wrong news that threaten the Party's rule".
[2][3] Force 47 (Lực lượng 47) is a large cyberspace military unit of Vietnam revealed in December 2017 with a focus on combating "wrong views" on the Internet.
[4] Internet security firms such as Volexity and FireEye report pro-Hanoi or Hanoi regime-sponsored hackers installed spyware on anti-government, dissident websites to track who visits them.
Vietnamese nationalists, dissidents and anti-communists claim that the CPVN has been doing this for a long time, to brainwash people's minds and distort and truth, branding who disagree with the Communist Party as "traitors of the nation".
[6] Other Governments also accused Vietnamese Communist Party's troll army for attacking and hacking websites that criticize the CPVN.