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The social network Twitter revealed today that it has suspended 174,000 accounts linked to the Chinese government that participated in a coordinated effort to promote narratives favorable to its management of the coronavirus crisis and the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, among other issues.

The accounts were deactivated during the first three months of 2020 and, according to Twitter, most of them wrote messages in Mandarin and sought to improve the image of the Government led by the Chinese Communist Party , mainly in Asia .

According to the blue bird company, the propaganda network did not get much digital impact, and the majority of messages it created ended up being shared by other accounts that were part of the same operation, instead of being propagated independently by other users.

The social network explains that it has found links between this operation and another one also carried out by the Chinese government in mid-2019 that spread, in addition to Twitter, to Facebook and YouTube.

On that occasion, the main objective of the campaign was to influence the perception of the crisis unleashed between Beijing and the autonomy of Hong Kong, and it had 210 YouTube channels, 200,000 Twitter accounts, and seven pages, three groups and five accounts. of users on Facebook.

"We have certain evidence that this is a state-supported operation. Specifically, we have identified large groups of accounts that behave in a coordinated way to amplify messages related to the protests in Hong Kong," those responsible for Twitter said on that occasion.

This social network is prohibited in China by the Government, so that the accounts were connected to the platform through virtual private networks, although some of them used unblocked IP addresses.

In addition to the Chinese accounts, Twitter also reported on Thursday that it has deactivated 1,153 accounts linked to a propaganda campaign originating in Russia, and another 7,340 from an operation linked to the Turkish government.

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