Mold of the internet: This Clunky Chinese Disinformation Effort Has Spread To Everywhere
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When a Twitter account for Utah business coach Spencer Taggart began posting about hot-button political issues in 2020, it garnered widespread attention. Tweets about an endemic cultural divide in the US and support for Black Lives Matter were shared by two Chinese embassy officials. But Taggart didn't write the tweets and hasn't been on the social media platform, now called X, in five years. Rather, his identity had been hijacked by a massive pro-China propaganda network, according to the social media analysis firm Graphika. “It's a similar feeling to being robbed,” Taggart said, speaking from Hawaii after Bloomberg News alerted him to the fake account. “If they thought that I promoted communism and hatred toward our country, and they really thought I was saying that, how horri...