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Two incredibly important points here
— Peter W. Singer (@peterwsinger) May 12, 2021
1) China's massive effort to artificially elevate its info warfare ops on platforms it bans its own population from
2) Only a few of these platforms allow the research and data sharing to police this#likewar https://t.co/udTNYcl0IG pic.twitter.com/hYSU2KmQrs
4/7 We found China hugely active on Twitter, Facebook, with hundreds of accounts amplifying messaging broadly set by central authorities. But platforms labelled few as government sponsored, despite transparency pledges. FB added labels to 41 China state media accounts we flagged pic.twitter.com/XgHNh5HoCC
— Erika Kinetz (@ekinetz) May 11, 2021
Imagine being so insecure about what you’re saying that you need to create an army of fake people to parrot it? https://t.co/7zH2gXYMH7
— Conor Fortune (@WritesRights) May 12, 2021
https://t.co/MWNyC7DDNB
— Mela Storm #Resistance! NO SURRENDER (@StormMela) May 11, 2021
China has made Twitter and Facebook a pointed weapon while blocking their use inside China.
Twitter and Facebook have not acted aggressively to thwart Chinese or Russian propaganda bots.
Seems like they could-if they wanted to do so.
China’s rise on Twitter has been powered by an army of fake accounts retweeting posts from diplomats and state media tens of thousands of times, @AP and @OxDemTech find, covertly amplifying propaganda that can reach hundreds of millions of people. https://t.co/iieXJwXx1I
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 11, 2021
I'm glad inauthentic behavior on social media linked to the Chinese government is finally getting the attention the topic deserves https://t.co/Ocyq73r2kP
— Mareike Ohlberg (@MareikeOhlberg) May 11, 2021
Who needs “bots” when you can just blatantly manipulate trending algorithms in favor of the US and its lackey ~allies~? https://t.co/qgbrTJZtXf pic.twitter.com/izZqwkSeqD
— Wyatt Reed (@wyattreed13) May 12, 2021
Summed up, the PRC diplomats collect considerable engagement, with nearly 7 million likes , over 1 million replies/comments, and 1.3 million shares/retweets. Figures for state media are even higher, with nearly 350 million likes in total. Source: Twitter and CrowdTangle APIs /12
— Marcel Schliebs (@m_schliebs) May 11, 2021
#disinformation: "China’s rise on Twitter has been powered by an army of fake accounts that have retweeted Chinese diplomats and state media tens of thousands of times . . . often without disclosing that the content is government-sponsored." #China https://t.co/oVrEGlbdCz
— Rainsy Sam (@RainsySam) May 12, 2021
Fake accounts helping boost China's reach on Twitter, study finds https://t.co/0iOxHxtubI pic.twitter.com/oDNWlCHBIz
— Anonymous Hispano (@anonopshispano) May 12, 2021
Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitterhttps://t.co/zLZocT8Exn
— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) May 12, 2021
“A seven-month investigation by the Associated Press and the Oxford Internet Institute found that #China rise on Twitter has been powered by an army of fake accounts that have retweeted Chinese diplomats and state media tens of thousands of times”#wumao https://t.co/ZXKDj0oTsy
— Germany Stands With Hong Kong (@germany_with_hk) May 12, 2021
"More than half the retweets [ambassador] Liu got from June through January came from accounts that Twitter has suspended for violating the platform’s rules, which prohibit manipulation." https://t.co/tCdRfoSKyX
— Jojje Olsson (@jojjeols) May 12, 2021
China’s rise on Twitter has been powered by an army of fake accounts retweeting posts from diplomats and state media tens of thousands of times, @AP and @OxDemTech find, covertly amplifying propaganda that can reach hundreds of millions of people. https://t.co/iieXJwXx1I
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 11, 2021
China uses an army of fake accounts to amplify is message on twitter and from personal experience I know on other platforms as well. https://t.co/2fj9ySK40Z
— Michael Ron Bowling (@mrbcyber) May 11, 2021
. @AP on China's fake Twitter army: "But much of the popular support [ex-UK ambassador] Liu and many of his colleagues seem to enjoy on Twitter has, in fact, been manufactured." https://t.co/AH9uc9AXAr
— Tom Grundy (@tomgrundy) May 12, 2021
China has opened a new front in its war to shape public opinion: Western social media. China diplomatic, state media posts retweeted nearly 200,000 times by 26,879 accounts Twitter suspended for breaking rules, which bar manipulation, @AP @OxDemTech find. https://t.co/Q9fk1VHkj1
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 11, 2021
China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media. https://t.co/Qz7Zf4dO3f
— 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) (@780thC) May 11, 2021
How China has weaponized social media https://t.co/CFoGPtLnPu "Twitter’s suspensions did not stop the pro-China amplification machine. An additional cluster of fake accounts, many of them impersonating U.K. citizens, continued to push Chinese government content"
— David Mulroney (@David_Mulroney) May 12, 2021
Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter
— Pham Quang Vinh (@vinhlhq2015) May 12, 2021
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AP and Oxford studies found that China’s rise on Twitter has been powered by an army of fake accounts that have retweeted Chinese diplomats and state media tens of thousands of times. https://t.co/Uh5gnGGj1h
Weekend WTF long read:https://t.co/Vw2w8dzP1x
— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) May 12, 2021
An @AP & @oiioxford investigation finds that #China employs an army of fake accounts on Twitter that retweet diplomats & state media tens of thousands of times, amplifying propaganda on the #UyghurGencoide & other topics to hundreds of millions of people.https://t.co/4oW0PbOXzi
— World Uyghur Congress (@UyghurCongress) May 12, 2021
The CCP propaganda system is vast & now incorporates Western social media. It has helped reshape perceptions of the PRC?? and "creates hopelessness that anything can be done about what China is doing to our democracies.” My comments to @AP @ekinetzhttps://t.co/QBl6SSbTls
— Professor Anne-Marie Brady (@Anne_MarieBrady) May 12, 2021
The point of these articles isn’t to tell you that there are bots on social media; no, the whole point is to make you believe that no one is capable of being pro-China and that only pro-Anglosphere views are legitimate and that bots don’t exist for them.https://t.co/p4CyDzDOY2
— Phryne Astynome (@PAstynome) May 12, 2021
Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter | Associated Press
— Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (@ipacglobal) May 11, 2021
"More than half the retweets [Ambassador] Liu got from June through January came from accounts that Twitter has suspended for violating the platform’s rules." https://t.co/Abi12X7vaB
1/7 China’s rise on Twitter powered by army of fake accounts retweeting posts from diplomats & state media tens of thousands of times, @AP @OxDemTech find, covertly amplifying propaganda that can reach hundreds of millions @ekinetz @m_schliebs report https://t.co/upGfsTIFr0
— Erika Kinetz (@ekinetz) May 11, 2021
I'm glad inauthentic behavior on social media linked to the Chinese government is finally getting the attention the topic deserves https://t.co/Ocyq73r2kP
— Mareike Ohlberg (@MareikeOhlberg) May 11, 2021
There is no datapoint that can be trusted at any level from the #CCP. https://t.co/13H4hcvN7U
— Michael Taylor (@Mike_Taylor1972) May 12, 2021
Twitter suspends accounts amplifying Chinese diplomats in response to @AP @OxDemTech investigation, launches investigation into whether China is behind the manipulation, @ekinetz @m_schliebs report. https://t.co/zZuIBGcJBK
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 11, 2021