Chinese Accounts Spammed Twitter Feed Allegedly to Obscure News of Protests
November 27, 2022
Twitter Feed was flooded by content from Chinese-language accounts which allegedly aimed to manipulate and reduce social media coverage about widespread protests against coronavirus restrictions in China.
- Alleged deployer
- Alleged developer
- Alleged harmed parties
- twitter-users, twitter
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