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EXCLUSIVE @formichenews 🇨🇳Chinese propaganda in Italy unveiled. Nearly 1/2 of the #forzaCinaeItalia tweets that greeted Chinese aid for #Covid19 came from BOTS, a report shows

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"From 11 to 23 March 46,3% and 37,1% of the tweets mentioning the hashtag #forzacinaeitalia and #grazieCina came from automatized accounts" the @alkemy analysis shows
3/N The hashtag #forzacinaeitalia was launched by the Chinese embassy in Italy to greet the aid arrival and gave its posts wide engagement, see below⬇️
"Names of the accounts are automatized, come from an algorithm" the report shows, "they have the same political affiliation, favourable to the Chinese intervention"🇨🇳🇮🇹
Bots hit hard from March 12 on, publishing "up to 92" tweets per day. In the same period the Chinese embassy account had an unprecedented engagement

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Many of the bots published video that turned out to be FAKE NEWS, like the one where Italians are filmed chanting "Thank you China" from their windows. This was also tweeted by Chinese FA Spokesperson Hua Chunying⬇️
The massive 🇨🇳 BOTS intervention confirms fears of the 🇮🇹 Intel. Commitee which sounded an alarm against foreign interferences and propaganda on the #Covid_19 crisis

Read the full story here⬇️⬇️⬇️

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