China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter
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Re: China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter
#2I don't understand it.
So there are bots that have been posting "porn" for a bunch of years. And now they post political messages.
How does that influence anybody? Who subscribes to porn bots? I would have thought only other porn bots follow porn bots?
Can somebody link to an example of such a bot?
Re: China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter
#3Sounds like a classic lowest-bidder government contractor situation. "Sure, we have 100,000 accounts, and we'll charge 1.25 RMB per tweet per account." "Fantastic! You get the contract!" "Oh shit we need to find 100,000 accounts fast and cheap."
Re: China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter
#4With all that happening in Hong Kong, i wonder why UK and US are not at all involved?
Re: China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter
#5With all that happening in Hong Kong, i wonder why UK and US are not at all involved?
Who says they aren't?
Re: China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter
#6I don't understand it. So there are bots that have been posting "porn" for a bunch of years. And now they post political messages. How does that influence anybody? Who subscribes to porn bots? I would have thought only other porn bots follow porn bots? Can somebody link to an example of such a bot?
The concept is that an account that is years old and has thousands of followers seems more plausible than one that was just created
Re: China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter
#7With all that happening in Hong Kong, i wonder why UK and US are not at all involved?
UK government is in the middle of collapsing in on itself, so anything non-brexit related has been pushed far on the backburner. I think even if you had an emergency legislation to feed the orphans or something it would still be ignored for the next few weeks.
Re: China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter
#8With all that happening in Hong Kong, i wonder why UK and US are not at all involved?
The UK downsized their Navy so much that they cannot even keep their oil tankers safe from Iran.
Re: China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter
#9I've seen a few of these, they appear in the replies to threads created by BBC journos saying things like (in translation): "support the central government"
These accounts were pretty perplexing until this article spelled out what should have been obvious to me.
Re: China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter
#10I don't understand it. So there are bots that have been posting "porn" for a bunch of years. And now they post political messages. How does that influence anybody? Who subscribes to porn bots? I would have thought only other porn bots follow porn bots? Can somebody link to an example of such a bot?
The concept is that an account that is years old and has thousands of followers seems more plausible than one that was just created
99% change , those followers are bots to.