Twitter has been flooded with sexually explicit images in a coordinated campaign to suppress online posts about “zero-Covid” protests in China, internet researchers say. But tactics like this aren't new.
, said Charity Wright, an intelligence analyst at the cybersecurity company Recorded Future who specializes in China.
Nisos, a digital security company based outside Washington, said in a report for NBC News that it was able to track a “dramatic increase in inauthentic Twitter bot account activity” starting around Nov. 24, when the“The use of Simplified Chinese city names with unrelated posts to overwhelm search results aids in disrupting communication and coordination between protest networks as well as preventing information regarding protests from reaching western audiences,” Nisos wrote in its report.
Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, denied the allegation, saying it “has no factual basis.”
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