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Chinese tweet that enraged Australia propelled by ‘unusual’ fake accounts
- Sunday | 6th December, 2020
Accounts originating in China were the most active, he said, and 8% of replies were from accounts created on the day, or in the 24 hours prior. “If there’s enough of them, those irregularities suggest they were set up for a particular campaign.”Some of the accounts had already been identified by Graham in a data-set of 37,000 Chinese accounts targeting Australia since June, he said. Ariel Bogle, a researcher at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said she had also noticed “unusual behaviour” by Twitter accounts retweeting or liking Zhao’s tweet. Earlier this year, Twitter said it had removed 23,750 accounts spreading geopolitical narratives favourable to the Chinese Communist Party, and another 150,000 accounts designed to amplify these messages. (Reporting by Kirsty Needham; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)Related article: Facebook dismantles seven networks of fake political accounts
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