Hundreds of Twitter Accounts Linked to China Sowed Discord Around US Election

A sophisticated social media operation believed to be linked to China’s communist regime played a key role in spreading disinformation, sowing discord, and amplifying calls for violence during and after the November election, a report from Cardiff University has found. The Crime and Security Research Institute (CSRI), an interdisciplinary unit at Cardiff University whose research aims to help “tackle local, national and global crime and security problems,” issued a two-part report on Jan. 27 (Part one – pdf, part two – pdf), which described a China-linked influence operation on Twitter that engaged with the presidential election and sowed discord.-- More...

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