It’s still a challenge to spot Chinese state media social accounts

[...]these accounts can fly under the radar of social network analysis tools, making it hard for researchers to associate them with accounts that are clearly related to the Chinese government. According to Quincoses, these accounts were never among those Twitter labeled as government-funded media (a...

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Published inMIT Technology Review.com
Main Author Yang, Zeyi
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Technology Review, Inc 19.07.2023
Subjects
Covert operations
Network analysis
Product testing
Social networks
Social organization
Spanish language
South America
Beijing China
United States > US
China
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Summary:[...]these accounts can fly under the radar of social network analysis tools, making it hard for researchers to associate them with accounts that are clearly related to the Chinese government. According to Quincoses, these accounts were never among those Twitter labeled as government-funded media (a practice it dropped in April). [...]they’ve been faking using ChatGPT or Midjourney and instead doing their job the old-fashioned way.
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