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This past Sunday (May 9th) was Mother's Day in multiple countries, and someone apparently chose to mark the occasion by creating a spam botnet to spread feel-good content related to #Xinjiang, China. #HolidayAstroturf

cc: @ZellaQuixote
This botnet consists of 65 accounts with default profile pics created on May 9th, 2021. All have tweeted exactly three times, with the exception of @CaraLambrecht, which has only tweeted twice. All tweets thus far were (supposedly) sent via Twitter for Android.
Each account in this botnet has tweeted the same three tweets in the same order (again, with the exception of @CaraLambrecht, which skipped one). The most recent tweet from each account is a Xinhua YouTube video of children (allegedly in Xinjiang) saying "happy Mother's Day".
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