Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter

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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.

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“As I see it, there are so-called ‘wolf warriors’ because there are ‘wolfs’ in the world and you need warriors to fight them,” Liu, who is now China’s Special Representative on Korean Peninsula Affairs, tweeted in February. But 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, racking up over 16,000 retweets and replies before Twitter kicked them off late last month and early this month, in response to the AP andThis fiction of popularity can boost the status of China’s messengers, creating a mirage of broad support.

“We will continue to investigate and action accounts that violate our platform manipulation policy, including accounts associated with these networks,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. “If we have clear evidence of state-affiliated information operations, our first priority is to enforce our rules and remove accounts engaging in this behavior. When our investigations are complete, we disclose all accounts and content in our public archive.

“On the battlefield of the Internet, whether we can withstand and win is directly related to our country’s ideological security and political security,” he said in 2013, not long after taking power. In September 2019, as Chinese diplomats flocked to Twitter, Xi gave another speech, urging party cadres to strengthen their “fighting spirit.”

Twitter and Facebook are blocked within China, and Beijing controls the conversation on domestic alternatives like WeChat and Weibo, effectively cutting off unmediated access to the Chinese public. Facebook had labelled two-thirds of a sample of 95 Chinese state media accounts in English, as of Mar. 1, but less than a quarter of accounts in other languages. Unlike Twitter, Facebook does not flag diplomatic accounts, the majority of which are official embassy and consulate accounts.

“We need the labels,” said China Media Project director David Bandurski, though he cautioned that they risk painting all Chinese media with the same broad brush, including outlets like Caixin that have managed to maintain a degree of independence. “This is all about co-opting the narrative. Telling China’s story means we the party get to tell China’s story and no one else. That’s happening in Portuguese and Spanish and French. It really is a global plan.

 

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OxDemTech nah bro its because the rise of MLs 💪💪💪

OxDemTech Chyna can NOT be trusted. Everything they do or say is fake

OxDemTech Where are our Xi bucks Comrade Xi? 🥺

OxDemTech As opposed to AP that prints fake news.

OxDemTech It’s a bit late for the international community to realize the scale of Beijing propaganda machines...

OxDemTech Everything online is fake.

OxDemTech I can prove it,All the accounts under this tweet are bots. Because I am one of it,really.

OxDemTech Guess we are all fakes. Such pathetic wishful thinking.

OxDemTech 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ AP is propaganda. Bad one, by the way.

OxDemTech Bruh! Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media

OxDemTech AP is just US propaganda then

OxDemTech Who defines fake? The US government? Nasty

OxDemTech Cope

OxDemTech Your story specifically mentions AmbLiuXiaoMing as an example. So lets look at his retweet count of late... May 7: 15, 13, 6, 1 April 12: 13, 15, 3, 51, 28, 219 April 9: 5, 6, 39 Hundreds of millions of people? A bit of an overreach, isn't it?

OxDemTech People are absolutely clear what they read more on twitter - pro-China or anti-China posts. There are also many people like me who just cannot stand heavily biased western media shamelessly distorting all things China (and Hong Kong).

OxDemTech And American corporations like Amazon would never flood Twitter with bots and fake accounts to spread propaganda

OxDemTech Or.. western narrative been opposed by informed twitter users. Hypocrisy

OxDemTech This is qanon for liberals

OxDemTech 😂😂😂now come to the stage of China using fake account. No matter way out. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

OxDemTech Meanwhile the entire western MSM prestitutes and semi academia has been pumped up with billions of NED dollars and spoon fed a fabricated narrative to try to destabilise China. HypocrisyWatch

OxDemTech ...said the AP bot account that posts its headlines.

OxDemTech Well, Twitter deletes the likes and retweets anyway.

OxDemTech

OxDemTech That means, I´m a fake account 学海无涯 有教无类 ☝️

OxDemTech Somehow anyone telling some fair points about China became either bot or wumao. What a convenient way to keep your lies.

OxDemTech Lolll I’m a real 🇨🇦 and we see tru ur bullshit! PalestinianLivesMatter xinjianglies

OxDemTech they're afraid of losing public opinion after spending all that money on spreading propaganda about China. I guess that's one way of securing your investments.

OxDemTech lol, we bots just doing alrite

OxDemTech It's a country with a billion and a half people. If 0.5% of the country had accounts that'd still be millions. Calling them bots is dehumanizing.

OxDemTech I am real, come check my pulse. 😎 I am not from China check that too. 😀 To AP propaganda, my middle finger salute!

OxDemTech Here is a Human a Turk getyouracttogether

OxDemTech

OxDemTech Very cute. Since when does Twitter restrict free speech?

OxDemTech Well it actually worked for the Republicans and Trump and we can't get any more communist than that. And you know Facebook loves it then they can advertise to hundreds of thousands of people that don't exist

OxDemTech Oh my god! I guess this is pointing fingers at every Chinese on Twitter as fake —

OxDemTech Biden has more bots on Twitter

OxDemTech China doesn't need bots.. their oldmen are more than what you have in the west

OxDemTech Well in that case, I'm proud to be one of the fake accounts that covertly amplify propaganda lmao

OxDemTech Oh? How about if I retweet the posts of Associated Press, what will it called?

OxDemTech lol, now they call it is fake accounts, trying to calm down. It is just a start because more and more fake news will be revealed. You can not fool all the people all the time.

OxDemTech Breaking: Automated AP Press Release accusees Chinese of being Bots!!

OxDemTech Discrediting and silencing those that have independent thoughts from your American-Funded propaganda? That doesn't sound very 'democracy', 'freedom' and 'human-rights'.

OxDemTech Seriously, can you just stop the spread of anti-China propaganda for a couple of days before G7? The MSM need to bring back the objectivity to restore credibility.

OxDemTech Western media when China's internet firewall cut off Twitter from Chinese users: China's so authoritarian that they don't even let their people go on Twitter. What are they afraid of? Western media when China opens the door to Twitter: Bots, bot, so many Chinese bots! 😱😱😱

OxDemTech total bullshit

OxDemTech i am bot??煞笔洋鬼子

OxDemTech Come on ,don't you know there are1.4 billion people in China?

OxDemTech Everyone who disagrees with me is a bot etc etc

OxDemTech This is my real account .... We spread truth , not spreading like you people

OxDemTech The communist has already infiltrated n spread their propaganda across the world long time ago...

OxDemTech But what about home grown terror being an existential threat to the U.S’ existence?🙄

OxDemTech And the West is only backed by boomers who are paid to do so. And you panic because they're so bad at it. okboomers

OxDemTech most are more real than your dad being your dad

OxDemTech I am not a human, I am a robot from US.

OxDemTech lol, AP, i am as fake as you are!

OxDemTech You don't say?

OxDemTech Nah I see more propaganda from the likes of CNN and BBC more so than some random accounts.

NickKristof OxDemTech 👀

OxDemTech Ap is doing the same thing for USA

OxDemTech You got me AP. I'm actually a tulpa brought into existence by the collective will of the CPC.

OxDemTech So in other words just like US right wing politicians?

OxDemTech That's why many US act as the treasoners to pro-CCP by making harm to US in making receiving interests or bribes from CCP totalitarian representatives Please say no to treasoners receiving money from CCP, also kick the Wumao out fro Twitter

jeanliu04385854 OxDemTech twitter should take quick action to ban all these accounts. They should not be the accomplice of the dictator, and let them harm our people

OxDemTech is a fakenews

OxDemTech 👍👍

OxDemTech That needs to stop.

OxDemTech More likely the CIA is creating thousands of fake accounts all criticising China. Sorry AP. You are not believable ...Fake News

OxDemTech 😁😁😁

OxDemTech Twitter can purge conspiracy theories, Q, Trump supporters and all that in the efforts of suppressing 'disinformation', yet allows China's propaganda division to operate in the open. Either they're terrible at the job they created for themselves, or they're complicit.

OxDemTech Whoever disagrees must be of fake accounts.

OxDemTech the only way of making Twitter neutral and a little useful is to crack it open beyond its current data blockage and manipulation, to narratives dissonant to the western symphony of lies, that justify and play along the chorus of vested interests and war. Celebrate contrahegemony.

OxDemTech All that you are uncomfortable and unprofitable - all fake... yeah 😏

OxDemTech China has done nothing wrong

OxDemTech If you point out the lies you are a robot

OxDemTech Got any proof of that?... Or it's like Saddam's WOMD? or Ghaddafi giving viagra to his soldiers? or Iraqi soldiers putting babies out of incubators? or that Iran & Iraq are behind 9/11? (and not the Saudis) ... and on and on and on....

OxDemTech But at least twitter doesn’t ban them

OxDemTech my account is fake?fuck

OxDemTech Propaganda or more truthful than the garbage the west is putting out?

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OxDemTech The US does this too. So fair game. The more discerning can filter through the BS. This is basically US officials angry that their propaganda isn't sticking.

OxDemTech Pretty much all of western media is propaganda, so what's the problem? Rich people ruling over everyone else and telling us it's 'democracy' and 'human rights'. And you continue that propaganda while they bomb this horror into countries probably more democratic than ours.

OxDemTech Nobody could possibly compete with the extent of US and UK state propaganda ops run thru MSM, resulting in horseshit scare stories like this one to prime the public for future wars. Hard pass

OxDemTech Fake rise on Twitter. As fake as their space program. Stick to something you can do well, like feeding people.

OxDemTech We are all true person, OK? We just want to express ourselves, but you say we not true person, well, I think China is good, and few certain western media have no talk freedom and human rights.

OxDemTech Copying Trump?

OxDemTech It's glaringly obvious at times

OxDemTech Its so easy to just dismiss people who doesn't support your propaganda as fake accounts or BOTs. Truth hurts.

OxDemTech Hilarious

OxDemTech wow. This is the official version of the wumao theory? Usually when those imperialist and liberal trolls use this word. I know they have been hurted by the truth.

OxDemTech 为什么外国人可以用微博微信,中国人就不能用推特脸书?中国人发表自己的观点,同群众交流,就是机器人、水军??

OxDemTech Even your most basic forums come with ranking systems. Twitter and Facebook could both fix these issues by ranking. There is no reason for anyone to need more than 10 to 20 retweets a day. They could limit that too. And their staff needs to be detrumped.

OxDemTech 真尼玛不要脸到了极致。也对,你们根本就没脸

OxDemTech So how many fake fans did buy through internet? May as many as the fake news as it produced

OxDemTech

RealSaavedra OxDemTech Duh.. Propaganda... If there is no interaction, it is Propaganda. Same with our riversidecagov KFIAM640 CAgovernor If our news, and government disseminate what in their opinions are facts, without any type of response, it is indoctrination, propaganda.

OxDemTech Twitter really need to act fast and ban these accounts. I’m sure when Voltaire said “defend to death your right to say it” he didn’t mean thugs who abuse the right to say lies repeatedly with aim to indoctrinate

OxDemTech fake

OxDemTech Hey China if you see this tweet, YOU SUCK! 🖕🏽

OxDemTech 1

OxDemTech Learned that one from the west -

OxDemTech Abetted by Twitter who want few verified accounts but billions of fake accounts to feed their bottom line.

OxDemTech

OxDemTech AP fake news

OxDemTech 😂

OxDemTech Must have borrowed the software from Fox News, the FBI, and the CIA. 😂

OxDemTech When the Russians did this it was the end of the world and democracy was under attack

OxDemTech Twitter is US-UK Govt's Propaganda Arm & AP u have history of Working with US Govt So I don't believe ur shitty report.Though I am not bot but 3 of my Privious account was Suspended & this account also being censored. 1) 2)

OxDemTech Who will be the.....FIRST ATHLETE(S) TO TAKE A KNEE FOR THE UIGHURS?

OxDemTech What no way not China.

OxDemTech They are a bit like tesla in that regard. They employ legions of social influencers China

OxDemTech Mummy and Daddy, what did YOU do when Xi Jinping put the Uighurs into Concentration Camps?

OxDemTech Well its cheaper than owning associated press

OxDemTech Fortunately the rise of China on Twitter, has been counteracted by Murdoch’s Fox News, The Australian, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, and yes, Associated Press No bots there. Just very real God fearing RWNJs.

OxDemTech

OxDemTech Time for socialmedia passports for verification so people can’t have multiple accounts that can login & logout with different user names that are used to create a trending topic or to target a person for politics or 2 create a lawlessness or ruthless action that can lead us 2 war

OxDemTech Makes sense. TwitterSafety is more interested in suspending small, no-name accounts for calling someone with sensitive feelings a bitch, or limiting features on your account (showing tweets you initiate to 10 ppl in a 24 hour period vs hundreds or thousands).

RealSaavedra OxDemTech Here I thought it was just the media here carrying Chinese water.....

OxDemTech 🇨🇳💲🇨🇳💲🇨🇳💲🇨🇳💲🇨🇳💲🇨🇳 'I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.' ~Donald Trump ('The Art Of The Deal') 💲🇨🇳💲🇨🇳💲🇨🇳💲🇨🇳💲🇨🇳💲

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