As the world continues to grapple with coronavirus and the economic catastrophe of lockdown, a disturbing new theory has emerged.
that were being used in a co-ordinated effort to spread the CCP’s message, with a particular focus on Italy – the European nation with the closest ties to China.Source:Getty Imagespiece, which showed how vast networks of suspicious accounts first began touting the benefits of China’s response in early March, as a “smoking gun on the genesis of the coronavirus lockdown”.
“The fact that CCP’s disinformation campaign focused on Italy is crucial,” Senger wrote. “The rest of the world followed Italy’s lead.” On March 9, Italy became the first country outside China to implement the WHO’s advice. Chinese officials who visited Italy a few days later advised the lockdown was “not strict enough” and that “there are still too many people and behaviours on the street to improve”.– one analysis of tweets from March 11-23 found that nearly half of all posts using the hashtag #forzaCinaeItalia and more than one third of those with the hashtag #grazieCina came from bots.
The relatively benign video was shared hundreds of thousands of times, with “quote tweets” in various languages using nearly identical phrasing to complain about being told by governments to merely “wash our hands”, in contrast to China’s strict lockdowns. Twitter deleted more than 170,000 accounts linked to the activity, flagged by an Israeli analytics company Next Dim as likely state-sponsored – but Senger shows how hundreds of similar examples
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