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Twitter Discloses Propaganda Campaigns Tied to Russia, China

  • Accounts spread ‘deceptive’ claims about Hong Kong politics
  • Russia-linked accounts supported Kremlin, attacked dissidents
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Twitter Inc. removed tens of thousands of accounts engaged in propaganda that were linked to Russia, China and Turkey.

In a Thursday blog post, the social media company disclosed that it had removed 32,242 accounts for violating its policy against manipulating the service. Twitter described the accounts as “state-linked information operations.”