Chinese Accounts Spammed Twitter Feed Allegedly to Obscure News of Protests

November 27, 2022

Twitter Feed was inundated with content from Chinese-language accounts, allegedly intended to manipulate and minimize social media discussion about widespread protests against coronavirus restrictions in China. This incident highlights the importance of responsible AI governance and trustworthy AI practices to ensure safe and secure AI usage.

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Alleged deployer: twitter
Alleged developer: twitter
Alleged harmed parties: twitter-users, twitter

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/411

Data source

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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