China Perfecting Its Social Media Disinformation Operations to Influence Americans: Analyst

China Perfecting Its Social Media Disinformation Operations to Influence Americans: Analyst
This combination of file pictures created on August 22, 2018 shows a photo illustration taken on March 23, 2018 of Twitter logos on a computer screen in Beijing and a file illustration picture taken on April 28, 2018 of the logo of social network Facebook displayed on a screen and reflected on a tablet in Paris. Nicolas Asfouri, Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images
J.M. Phelps
Freelance reporter
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The Chinese regime is perfecting its ability to influence social media users through the spread of propaganda and disinformation, an analyst says, despite encountering few setbacks.

Twitter in December removed 2,160 accounts linked to Chinese information campaigns. Most of the accounts were removed because they “amplified” the Chinese Communist Party’s narrative to stymie allegations of human rights abuses by Beijing against the Uyghur population in Xinjiang, Twitter said.
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