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China’s Communist Party opens social media as new front in long war to shape global public opinion China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media. More than half the retweets Liu got from June through January came from accounts that Twitter has suspended for violating the platform’s rules, which prohibit manipulation. Overall, more than one in ten of the retweets 189 Chinese diplomats got in that time frame came from accounts that Twitter had suspended by Mar 1. But Twitter’s suspensions did not stop the pro-China...
