How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters

Re:How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong... by bernierocks on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @03:24PM (#21009003)

"Does anyone really think 17 bots on Twitter tweeting messages in Chinese is going to change this?"

Try 17 thousand or 17 million bots, Tweeting in English.

This is also only a small fraction of what they are actually doing. If you take a look at many new movies coming out in the US, many are financed by a Chinese company.

They have also started buying major stakes in media companies, like Reddit.

The strange thing about the Hong Kong protests is that I can't seem to find any balanced coverage of it and I almost saw no coverage of it here on major US television networks.

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Re:How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong... by cylinder714 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @04:59PM (#21010138)

Try 17 thousand or 17 million bots, Tweeting in English

And now they've got Reddit covered with /r/Sino but I'm unsure if that's new or not.

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