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Written by Jeff Stone Jun 12, 2020 | CYBERSCOOP Just because Twitter is banned in mainland China doesn’t mean Beijing won’t use it to influence public opinion around the world. Twitter announced Thursday it removed 23,750 accounts linked to Chinese-backed propaganda campaigns. Those accounts made up the core of the effort, the company said, while another 150,000 sought to amplify the content on those core accounts. Much of the activity was aimed at undermining pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, the coronavirus pandemic and discrediting Chinese dissidents, researchers found. Researchers from Stanford University’s Internet Observatory determined that the Twitter activity focused...
