The accounts were focused on the protests in Hong Kong but also mentioned the coronavirus pandemic and Taiwan.
The accounts were also used to"weaponise the US government's response to domestic protest and civil unrest in order to create the perception of moral equivalence with the suppression of protest in Hong Kong" the government funded think-tank warned.
"Persistent, covert and deceptive influence operations like this one demonstrate the extent to which the party-state will target external threats to its political power. Twitter attributed the campaign to the Chinese Communist Party which has ruled China country for more than 70 years, and was behind another 200,000 accounts which the company suspended last August.began to build up in late January and spiked in late March, Twitter said.
Renee DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory welcomed Twitter making this information public - something which no other social media platform does.
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