Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter | Facebook observing 'steady growth' in disinformation-for-hire services | Myanmar’s coup threatens vloggers, influencers and tech entrepreneurs
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Follow us on Twitter. The Daily Cyber Digest focuses on the topics we work on, including cyber, critical technologies & strategic issues like foreign interference. A seven-month investigation by the Associated Press and the Oxford Internet Institute, a department at Oxford University, found that China’s rise on Twitter has been powered by an army of fake accounts that have retweeted Chinese diplomats and state media tens of thousands of times, covertly amplifying propaganda that can reach hundreds of millions of people -- often without disclosing the fact that the content is government-sponsored.
Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter | Facebook observing 'steady growth' in disinformation-for-hire services | Myanmar’s coup threatens vloggers, influencers and tech entrepreneurs
Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on…
Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter | Facebook observing 'steady growth' in disinformation-for-hire services | Myanmar’s coup threatens vloggers, influencers and tech entrepreneurs
Follow us on Twitter. The Daily Cyber Digest focuses on the topics we work on, including cyber, critical technologies & strategic issues like foreign interference. A seven-month investigation by the Associated Press and the Oxford Internet Institute, a department at Oxford University, found that China’s rise on Twitter has been powered by an army of fake accounts that have retweeted Chinese diplomats and state media tens of thousands of times, covertly amplifying propaganda that can reach hundreds of millions of people -- often without disclosing the fact that the content is government-sponsored.