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Twitter and Facebook have uncovered and suspended a network of fake accounts believed to have been operated by the Chinese government. On Monday, both companies disclosed their investigations into the coordinated information operation, which was apparently intended to sow political discord around the protests taking place in Hong Kong.
According to Twitter, 936 accounts created within the People’s Republic of China were found to be “deliberately and specifically” sowing discord in Hong Kong in an attempt to undermine “the legitimacy and political positions of the protest movement on the ground.”
“All the accounts have been suspended for a range of violations of our platform manipulation policies,” Twitter said in the blog.
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