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Mtandao wa Twitter umesema umezifuta akaunti 170,000 zilizokuwa zinahamasisha maandamano Hong Kong, kutoa mtazamo wa uongo kuhusu COVID19 na kuhusu maandamano ya Marekani ya George Floyd
Twitter imesema akaunti 23,750 zilizoandika jumbe hizo na 150,000 zilizosaidia kusambaa zaidi jumbe hizo mfano kwa ku-retweet, zote kwa pamoja zimeondolewa
Imeelezwa kuwa japo Twitter imezuiwa China kampeni hizo zililenga Wachina nje ya nchi hiyo na zilihusu maandamano ya Hong Kong, kuzuia kuingia China kwa tajiri Guo Wengui na upotoshaji juu ya kiwango cha kuenea kwa #Coronavirus
Watafiti hao wanasema jumbe zilikuwa zikisifu China kwa namna ilivyopambana na ugonjwa wa Corona huku zikitumia janga hilo kuwachukiza Wanaharakati wa Hong Kong na Marekani
Watafiti walichunguza jumbe 348,608 kati ya Januari 2018 na Aprili 2020 na kubaini kuwa jumbe nyingi zilitumwa katika muda wa kazi wa Beijing kati ya Jumatatu na Ijumaa, na kutotumwa Wikiendi
Hii sio mara ya kwanza kwa Twitter kuchukua hatua kama hiyo. Agosti 2019 ilizifuta karibu akaunti 1,000 zilizoaminika kufanyakazi zikiwa China Bara zikiwa zinatuma jumbe za kupandikiza mzozo wa kisiasa HongKong
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Twitter announced Thursday that it had shut down more than 170,000 accounts tied to the Chinese government. Experts working with Twitter who reviewed the accounts said they pushed deceptive narratives around the Hong Kong protests, Covid-19, and other topics.
The company said the accounts were "spreading geopolitical narratives favorable to the Communist Party of China" and were removed for violating its platform manipulation policies.
Twitter's takedown is the latest development in Silicon Valley's attempt to thwart governments using social media platforms to push narratives in their favor.
Twitter is officially blocked in China, though many people in the country are able to access it using a VPN. Among the targets of the Chinese campaign were overseas Chinese "in an effort to exploit their capacity to extend the party-state's influence," according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a group Twitter worked with to analyze the accounts. Twitter said the accounts tweeted "predominantly in Chinese languages."
Renee DiResta, research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, who also analyzed the accounts, said that many of those that posted about Covid-19 throughout the spring had only been set up in late January.
"Narratives around Covid," the SIO wrote in its analysis, "praise China's response to the virus while tweets also use the pandemic to antagonize the U.S. and Hong Kong activists."
Twitter said it had identified 23,750 accounts it described as a "highly engaged core network" that were used to tweet content favorable to Beijing and a further 150,000 accounts that were used to amplify the content, for example, by retweeting content posted by core accounts.
The 23,750 accounts collectively tweeted 348,608 times, according to the researchers at Stanford.
Twitter said many of the accounts had been identified early and therefore had low follower counts and low engagement.
This is not the first such action taken by Twitter. In August 2019, the company removed just under 1,000 accounts believed to be operating within mainland China for "deliberately and specifically attempting to sow political discord in Hong Kong."
The company also announced Thursday that it had shut down accounts tied to Russia and Turkey
Twitter found more than 1,000 accounts that promoted the ruling United Russia party
In Turkey, a network of 7,340 accounts posted content favorable of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Parti. Stanford researchers said the accounts had tweeted 37 million times
Tweets from many of the accounts Twitter shut down will be posted by the company to an archive where they can be studied
Twitter imesema akaunti 23,750 zilizoandika jumbe hizo na 150,000 zilizosaidia kusambaa zaidi jumbe hizo mfano kwa ku-retweet, zote kwa pamoja zimeondolewa
Imeelezwa kuwa japo Twitter imezuiwa China kampeni hizo zililenga Wachina nje ya nchi hiyo na zilihusu maandamano ya Hong Kong, kuzuia kuingia China kwa tajiri Guo Wengui na upotoshaji juu ya kiwango cha kuenea kwa #Coronavirus
Watafiti hao wanasema jumbe zilikuwa zikisifu China kwa namna ilivyopambana na ugonjwa wa Corona huku zikitumia janga hilo kuwachukiza Wanaharakati wa Hong Kong na Marekani
Watafiti walichunguza jumbe 348,608 kati ya Januari 2018 na Aprili 2020 na kubaini kuwa jumbe nyingi zilitumwa katika muda wa kazi wa Beijing kati ya Jumatatu na Ijumaa, na kutotumwa Wikiendi
Hii sio mara ya kwanza kwa Twitter kuchukua hatua kama hiyo. Agosti 2019 ilizifuta karibu akaunti 1,000 zilizoaminika kufanyakazi zikiwa China Bara zikiwa zinatuma jumbe za kupandikiza mzozo wa kisiasa HongKong
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Twitter announced Thursday that it had shut down more than 170,000 accounts tied to the Chinese government. Experts working with Twitter who reviewed the accounts said they pushed deceptive narratives around the Hong Kong protests, Covid-19, and other topics.
The company said the accounts were "spreading geopolitical narratives favorable to the Communist Party of China" and were removed for violating its platform manipulation policies.
Twitter's takedown is the latest development in Silicon Valley's attempt to thwart governments using social media platforms to push narratives in their favor.
Twitter is officially blocked in China, though many people in the country are able to access it using a VPN. Among the targets of the Chinese campaign were overseas Chinese "in an effort to exploit their capacity to extend the party-state's influence," according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a group Twitter worked with to analyze the accounts. Twitter said the accounts tweeted "predominantly in Chinese languages."
Renee DiResta, research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, who also analyzed the accounts, said that many of those that posted about Covid-19 throughout the spring had only been set up in late January.
"Narratives around Covid," the SIO wrote in its analysis, "praise China's response to the virus while tweets also use the pandemic to antagonize the U.S. and Hong Kong activists."
Twitter said it had identified 23,750 accounts it described as a "highly engaged core network" that were used to tweet content favorable to Beijing and a further 150,000 accounts that were used to amplify the content, for example, by retweeting content posted by core accounts.
The 23,750 accounts collectively tweeted 348,608 times, according to the researchers at Stanford.
Twitter said many of the accounts had been identified early and therefore had low follower counts and low engagement.
This is not the first such action taken by Twitter. In August 2019, the company removed just under 1,000 accounts believed to be operating within mainland China for "deliberately and specifically attempting to sow political discord in Hong Kong."
The company also announced Thursday that it had shut down accounts tied to Russia and Turkey
Twitter found more than 1,000 accounts that promoted the ruling United Russia party
In Turkey, a network of 7,340 accounts posted content favorable of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Parti. Stanford researchers said the accounts had tweeted 37 million times
Tweets from many of the accounts Twitter shut down will be posted by the company to an archive where they can be studied
