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  • How China Built a Twitter Propaganda Machine Then Let It Loose on Coronavirus

    03/26/2020 2:51:47 PM PDT · by bitt · 3 replies
    propublica.org ^ | Jeff Kao, ProPublica and Mia Shuang Li
    ProPublica analyzed thousands of fake and hijacked Twitter accounts to understand how covert Chinese propaganda spreads around the globe. Kalen Keegan, a college student at the University of Nebraska Omaha, immediately noticed when her Twitter account unleashed a torrent of posts in Chinese. “My other account got hacked👍🏽,” the soccer player posted on a replacement account. The new author tweeting as @Kalenkayyy had strong views on geopolitics — all aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. It was obsessed with the protests in Hong Kong, offered uncritical praise of the Hong Kong police and accused demonstrators of fomenting a “color revolution”...