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24 Jan, 4 tweets, 3 min read
A conspiracy theory that a member of Joe Biden's Secret Service detail is his "Chinese government handler" has been floating around MAGA Twitter since the inauguration. (The man in question is of Korean descent and has worked for the Secret Service for years.)

cc: @ZellaQuixote
The false claim that one of the Secret Service agents guarding Biden is his "Chinese Handler" started popping up here and there in December 2020 (and possibly earlier, as it's not unlikely that some related content was removed as part of Twitter's recent QAnon purge).
The bogus "Biden's secret service agent is his CCP handler" narrative appears to have gained traction on two previous occasions. The first was December 19th, 2020, and was the result of multiple accounts misrepresenting a video posted by @TheHill of Biden attending church.
The second time this disinformation narrative was circulated widely was January 2nd/3rd, 2021, when @DanScavino posted a brief video clip of Biden accompanied by the Secret Service agent who has been repeatedly misidentified as an operative of the Chinese government.

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24 Jan
Which porridge won today's Twitter duel? (Also, does anyone understand why these trends were labeled "politics"?)

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23 Jan
In Aug 2020, someone redirected antifa(dot)com to joebiden(dot)com, and has now switched it to whitehouse(dot)gov. Even though anyone can buy a domain and point it at any website, some folks falsely insist Biden is affiliated with the antifa(dot)com domain name.

cc @ZellaQuixote
Whoever bought the antifa(dot)com domain also appears to have briefly pointed it at kamalaharris(dot)org and buildbackbetter(dot)gov. Again, this does not require the consent or involvement of the website being redirected to.
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22 Jan
Are tweets about Xinjiang from @ChineseEmbinUS being artificially amplified by a network of repetitively named batch-created accounts? (Spoiler: yes, and they retweet other Chinese diplomatic and state media accounts as well.)

cc: @ZellaQuixote
We downloaded recent retweets of @ChineseEmbinUS's tweets, and noticed several spikes in account creation (mostly in early 2020). The accounts created during these spikes have distinctive patterns in their names, similar numbers of tweets/likes, and so on.
By exploring the retweeters of the other tweets retweeted by these accounts, we found a total of 674 batch-created accounts, created between December 2019 and January 2021. The naming schemes sometimes vary from batch to batch (table show representatives examples).
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20 Jan
It's a Tuesday in January, which is a great time to look at a retweet botnet that uses custom apps with official-sounding names like "Mobile App 9.2".

cc: @ZellaQuixote
This botnet consist of 71 accounts, the majority of which were made in 2017 or 2018 but were largely dormant until December 2020. Almost all recent content is automated via "Mobile App 9.2", with a few other custom apps thrown in. The accounts tweet on very similar schedules.
Almost all of this botnet's tweets are retweets (6045 of 6372 tweets, 94.8%), and almost all content is in Turkish (6202 of 6372 tweets, 97.3%).
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19 Jan
A bogus claim from @amuse that Biden's transition team asked the National Guard not to station troops near Biden who have voted in GOP primaries/contributed to GOP candidates went viral recently, being retweeted thousands of times and copied by several accounts.

cc @ZellaQuixote
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One last thing: @amuse regularly deletes older tweets, hiding from the casual observer the account's track record of peddling disinformation. Plenty of @amuse's tweets have been archived, however, which is how we found most of the ones featured in this thread.
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