China-backed disinformation campaign on social media has been running for years, researchers claim

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In 2017, thousands of tweets targeted a Chinese businessman who publically accused government officials of corruption

Actors linked to the Chinese government have been running a disinformation campaign against political targets for at least two years on various social media platforms. That's according to a new ...

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