False Pro-China Accounts Invade Twitter in the UK
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False Pro-China Accounts Invade Twitter in the UK
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Re: False Pro-China Accounts Invade Twitter in the UK
#2We're not supposed to question it, but in this case it seems salient: your account was created just to post this and it's got a lot of upvotes for something seemingly banal.
Is this part of a competing "diplomatic program"?
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#3defining terms is important. What is a "false" account? How do you distinguish a genuine pro-china account from cynical manipulation?
Re: False Pro-China Accounts Invade Twitter in the UK
#4We're not supposed to question it, but in this case it seems salient: your account was created just to post this and it's got a lot of upvotes for something seemingly banal. Is this part of a competing "diplomatic program"?
A lot of people are concerned about their online history based on what is happening in Hong Kong with people being arrested and charged for things they said in the past.
Once you set foot in China and now even Hong Kong, all bets are off.
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#5Being picky but they are fake UK native tweeters. They are true Pro-China accounts. Allegedly from the artical.
Re: False Pro-China Accounts Invade Twitter in the UK
#6defining terms is important. What is a "false" account? How do you distinguish a genuine pro-china account from cynical manipulation?
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#7>A University of Oxford report shows 98,000 tweets were connected with a Chinese program spreading the propaganda statements of Beijing’s ambassador in London.
I would much prefer to read the report.
Re: False Pro-China Accounts Invade Twitter in the UK
#8We're not supposed to question it, but in this case it seems salient: your account was created just to post this and it's got a lot of upvotes for something seemingly banal. Is this part of a competing "diplomatic program"?
No, it's not salient at all. It's a research report from the University of Oxford:
https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/127/20...
If you want to criticize something, criticize that. We can do without baseless accusations.
Re: False Pro-China Accounts Invade Twitter in the UK
#9We're not supposed to question it, but in this case it seems salient: your account was created just to post this and it's got a lot of upvotes for something seemingly banal. Is this part of a competing "diplomatic program"?
A lot of people are concerned about their online history based on what is happening in Hong Kong with people being arrested and charged for things they said in the past. Once you set foot in China and now even Hong Kong, all bets are off.
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Re: False Pro-China Accounts Invade Twitter in the UK
#10defining terms is important. What is a "false" account? How do you distinguish a genuine pro-china account from cynical manipulation?
From the article, emphasis mine:
> The tweeters, it was discovered, appeared to be part of a fake band of PRC groupies. Impersonating British citizens, they exist solely to manipulate public opinion, and push the views of prominent UK-based PRC representatives, by parroting their stirring political propaganda in tweets and re-tweets.
A genuine account belongs to a real person who isn't participating on a platform solely for the purpose of astroturfing.