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Information operations directed at Hong Kong

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1116 points whatok | 1 comments | 19 Aug 19 18:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sp332 ◴[19 Aug 19 19:06 UTC] No.20740752[source]▶
This doesn't really explain the money they took from Xinhua News to promote certain tweets that lied about the protests being violent or unwanted by the majority of HK residents. https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/1162711159000055808 https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-running-paid-ads-...
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camgunz ◴[19 Aug 19 19:08 UTC] No.20740768[source]▶
It's just a little further down: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertisi...
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1. sp332 ◴[19 Aug 19 19:10 UTC] No.20740795[source]▶
Thanks. That's pretty clearly motivated by recent disinformation campaigns, but doesn't mention them at all. Kinda lets them off the hook in my opinion, not to mention keeping the money.

Edit: Facebook, for example, calls them out directly. https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/08/removing-cib-china/