An ‘army of fake Chinese accounts’ freely promotes communist propaganda on Twitter; Report


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Andrés Vacca | TheBL 05/12/21, 18:10 Left: Logo of the social network Twitter. (Flickr/AJC1) /Right: Press conference by President Xi Jinping of China. Kigali, July 23, 2018 (Flickr/Paul Kagame). A recent Associated Press report prepared in conjunction with the Oxford Internet Institute claims that an army of fake bot accounts has been pushing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) messages on Twitter without action by the platform for quite some time. There are growing arguments to confirm that the CCP uses Western social networks as a new front in its long and ambitious war to shape global public opinion. As part of...