🧵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
On 13/08, a fake quote attributed to Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya circulated on X:
“The countdown to the next massacre has begun. Next time we will slaughter all the Jews"
It was debunked, but Gemini later stated it as fact >
2/ Firstly, this super sus account was the first I could find spreading the rumour on X (7.49 am UK time 13/08). @RonanMark572778 - whoever this 'pilot and physician' is has sent >113k tweets since July 2023. He also has a verified account (rememeber verification = algo boost).
3/ The narrative then was picked up on X by other accounts and influencers, changing ever so slightly. Accounts like @FleurHassanN @thevoicetruth1 (lol) got a lot of engagement and 'legitimised' the rumour.
NOTE: Not one of these accounts is providing a source to the quote.
🧵🚨1/ This verified X account posing as an American doctor has been spreading pro-Israel propaganda, justifying the killing of journalists, and posting predominantly anti–Sudanese Armed Forces content. The account is fake.>
#disinformation #gazagenocide #Sudan
2/ The first clear red flags are the tweets versus creation date ratio.
The account was created in 2009, but has only tweeted 1090 times, and the first of those was on April 2025. This means the account has been appropriated/hacked/bought and its old tweets scrubbed.
3/ I located the unique user id of the account. I ran this user id via the botometer archive of bots and it tells me that in February 2023 the account was called 'sitaramks', not 'nate_jone'
1/ Propaganda botnet alert! About 50 accounts, tweeting in English & Arabic, have pushed out thousands of posts about #Sudan’s war over the past few months. Almost all certainly using genAI, all pushing a pro-UAE, anti-SAF & anti Muslim (Brotherhood) narrative. #disinformation
2/ They all follow the same script:
> Blame Burhan, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Muslim Brotherhood for Sudan’s suffering.
> Praise the UAE for “stability” and “humanitarian aid.”
> Wrap it all in moral language about peace, tolerance, and unity.
3/ Much of the phrasing is synthetic: with odd, weird idioms, and em dashes. Classic traces of Chat GPT or another LLM agent. The slogans repeat across accounts:
e.g. “Brotherhood’s Butler”, “Brotherhood in Uniform”, “Ministry of Brotherhood Enforcement”, "Sudan bleeds"
🤖 1/ Ok this is pretty wild. I saw some sus pro-Israel astroturfing activity on a BBCNews Facebook post about aid arriving in Gaza. Lots of Hasbara comments like "Hamas will take the aid". The following 2 identical posts were side by side so I looked into it. #disinformation
2/ Specifically I looked at Dean O' Connor. Firstly up, there were two almost identical Dean O'connor pages, both created on consecutive days last week (15 + 16 May). The one that posted is the one on the right.
3/ When I reverse image searched the picture I was inundated with dozens of pages from forums about romance scams asking about people using this same picture. A lot of people scammed out of thousands. Someone even asked on Quora about O'Connor!
Macron Cocaine Thread/ - The first 10 hours of the @EmmanuelMacron @Keir_Starmer @ZelenskyyUa Cocaine disinformation.
Seemed to be promoted initially by a few dubious accounts like @Veritiste @SitgesFranck @99percentyouth @SilentlySirs @goddeketal
#disinformation
2/ Before being boosted by the right-wing ecosystem and conspiracy accounts e.g. @DineshDSouza @RealAlexJones @CollinRugg. No serious journalists reported this story (because it's absurd). Nonetheless, those tweeting in the first 10 hours generated over 103 million views on X!
3/ The boosting of the info by Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev was via Alex Jones, who as the above timeline shows - wasn't the first to put it out on X - but the most widely viewed.
🚨1/ Fake News Alert: A number of accounts are spreading false information that a church in #Wales was burned down by two Pakistan migrants/muslims. There are other narratives, but this is the dominant one. It is false but has obtained millions of views. some data> #disinfo
2/ It is true that a church did burn down. It was set alight by two local teenagers. The South Wales police have tweeted that other rumours circulating are false - they are of course talking about the false info about the ethnicity of the attackers (right).
3/ The most shared claim comes from 'RadioEuropes'. This is a 'Dysinfluencer' account - an account that repeatedly spreads false and malicious information - in this case xenophobic and anti-Muslim content. You can see its false tweet garnered over 3.6 million views