It appears Twitter took quick action to stop the spread of the video, with many tweets that were visible on Thursday no longer viewable on Friday.
A Twitter botnet began promoting YouTube videos falsely labelling the ABC an Australian propaganda website less than a day afternot to take sides in Beijing’s push to achieve reunification with Taiwan.
It appears Twitter took quick action to stop the spread of the video, with many tweets no longer viewable in search on Friday compared with Thursday. However, they still appear on the profile pages of the bot accounts.
“State-financed media organisations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy,” Twitter’s policy states. “The quality of the content they push through the system is much lower ... I think they genuinely wince at some of the voices they have to platform to get content that defend their positions.”ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian, at the National Press Club in Canberra, where he said Beijing would use “any means necessary”The botnet can be identified through the reposting of exactly or almost the same tweet by different accounts, as well as the unidentifiable or faked profile images.
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