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Apr 9, 2022 10 tweets 6 min read Read on X
🧵1/ Yesterday I highlighted a large Chinese-language anti-US propaganda and #disinformation network on Twitter. A few of the accounts were also sharing links to Facebook videos. These links also led to fake #Facebook profiles sharing content in both English and Chinese
2/ For example, @HattonDrake , shared several links to a Facebook page 'blog' by 怜神, who has around 2.3k followers. The profile picture, like many of the accounts here, features an attractive young woman
3/ The videos shared by 怜神 are critical of the US sanctions on Russia, and its position towards Taiwan. Some of the videos have hundreds of likes, although it is not clear how many of the accounts doing the liking are legitimate.
4/ It is clear that 怜神 is part of a larger network of similar 'blog' accounts that spread Chinese content, in both English and Chinese. See below. Two different accounts but both using identical banner profile pictures #fail.

There are more though.
5/ For example, meet Noelle, Jacquelin, Kimberlee, and Genny Vanderwoude. All excellent stock photographers, and attractive. Their last share is a Chinese language video about Covid19 in Hong Kong. They all comment in Chinese on videos, and share the same videos.
6/ Their followers vary, Noelle for example, has a lot of Arabic followers - not sure how many of them are legit. Quite a few of the commenters also have Turkish sounding names.
7/ Like the twitter network, some of the accounts are more central nodes, with more followers, with other (low tier) accounts, boosting their content. One of these, whose name 'Kgfhgff' should be filed under *needs improvement*, was also sharing US #Ukraine biolab conspiracies
8/ It's not clear how many accounts are involved in total, but I came across a few dozen that were active in commenting. In addition to fake follower accounts it is likely much more.
9/ So TLDR: there is a network of fake facebook pages and accounts sharing English (translated from Chinese) and Chinese-language media content, much of which reads as propaganda, some of which is #disinformation about #Ukraine , Taiwan and Hong Kong.
For those who missed it > here is yesterday's thread on a large Chinese-language disinfo network

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2/ terrorists. The video shows armed men mingling with what are probably UN workers. There is no sense of coercion or animosity in those shots. Crucially, there is no caveat that these people might not be factions or Hamas police protecting aid convoys.
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3/ The US has even asked Israel to stop targeting Hamas police officers trying to protect aid. Naturally the video provides no context, and remember the IDF are an organisation that recently murdered multiple aid workers in clearly marked vehicles. Image
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🧵1/ I am somewhat dismayed (though sadly unsurprised) by this extremely disingenuous and callous reporting about Palestinian death figures. Claims that the UN have revised down its death toll are absolutely untrue but have been repeated by right wing outlets but also the CFR 🤔

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2/ These media are focusing on these two infographics by the @ochaopt . The one on the left, published 6th May, the one on the right published 8th May. As you can see, total fatalities INCREASE, as opposed to decrease. What the propaganda is seaking to do is barely sophistry
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3/All that's happening is the OCHA has added figures for the dead that have been identified. It quite clearly says that the breakdown DOES NOT include 10000 missing or buried under rubble. Image
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