Exclusive: Linked accounts on X push petrostate’s posts about climate summit and drown out criticism
Scores of apparently fake social media accounts are boosting Azerbaijan’s hosting of the Cop29 climate summit, an investigation has revealed.
More than half of their posts in September used the #COP29 or #COP29Azerbaijan tags and 70% of their retweets were of the official Azerbaijan Cop29 posts or other official Azerbaijan government, party or politician posts. The accounts were also part of a network, with most connected to at least six other suspicious accounts.
At the time of publication, some of the accounts had been suspended, with posts replaced by a message stating: “X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.” Others accounts were “temporarily restricted” due to “some unusual activity from this account”.
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