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Posing as Americans, Chinese accounts on X aim to divide and disrupt (washingtonpost.com)
28 points by wolverine876 10 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



Anyone else tired from these stories?

1. It’s obvious 2. Do they even get any engagement? Americans can’t be that dumb 3. I might sometimes accidentally identify as American on the internet “we” and refer to their elections as “our elections” despite being Japanese. It makes people less toxic and suspicious or maybe I’ve just been consuming too much English media


It seems that American intelligence services got a budget increase to bash China. You here it every two days in almost every major newspaper or TV station.

Money well spent.


"Believe it. Men have ever been the same / And all the golden age is but a dream." - Congreve, 1700


> It’s obvious

Per the OP, the Chinese government wasn't doing it before and changed what they are doing. If it was 'obvious' to you before, you were wrong about it.

> 2. Do they even get any engagement? Americans can’t be that dumb

Is your argument that disinformation campaigns are necessarily ineffective? That's really hard to imagine.


Its election year, you gonna see more shit being thrown at wall.

End of day, US readers like this type of stories.




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