Twitter deletes 170,000 accounts linked to China influence campaign
by Josh Taylor from Technology | The Guardian on (#54JPS)
Content focused on Covid-19 and the protests in Hong Kong and over George Floyd in the US
Twitter has removed more than 170,000 accounts the social media site says are state-linked influence campaigns from China focusing on Hong Kong protests, Covid-19 and the US protests in relation to George Floyd.
The company announced on Thursday that 23,750 core accounts - and 150,000 amplifier" accounts that boosted the content posted by those core accounts - had been removed from the platform after being linked to an influence campaign from the People's Republic.
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