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Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter

BRUSSELS (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter

BRUSSELS (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter

BRUSSELS (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter

BRUSSELS (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter

BRUSSELS (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter

BRUSSELS (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter

BRUSSELS (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID, China took leading role

BRUSSELS (AP) — The rumors began almost as soon as the disease itself. Claims that a foreign adversary had unleashed a bioweapon emerged at the fringes of Chinese social media the same day China first reported the outbreak of a mysterious virus.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID, China took leading role

BRUSSELS (AP) — The rumors began almost as soon as the disease itself. Claims that a foreign adversary had unleashed a bioweapon emerged at the fringes of Chinese social media the same day China first reported the outbreak of a mysterious virus.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID, China took leading role

BRUSSELS (AP) — The rumors began almost as soon as the disease itself. Claims that a foreign adversary had unleashed a bioweapon emerged at the fringes of Chinese social media the same day China first reported the outbreak of a mysterious virus.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID, China took leading role

BRUSSELS (AP) — The rumors began almost as soon as the disease itself. Claims that a foreign adversary had unleashed a bioweapon emerged at the fringes of Chinese social media the same day China first reported the outbreak of a mysterious virus.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Report: Social media manipulation affects even US senators

BRUSSELS (AP) — The conversation taking place around two U.S. senators’ verified social media accounts remained vulnerable to manipulation through artificially inflated shares and likes from fake users, even amid heightened scrutiny in the run up to the U.S. presidential election, an investigation by the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO

Report: Social media manipulation affects even US senators

BRUSSELS (AP) — The conversation taking place around two U.S. senators’ verified social media accounts remained vulnerable to manipulation through artificially inflated shares and likes from fake users, even amid heightened scrutiny in the run up to the U.S. presidential election, an investigation by the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO

Report: Social media manipulation affects even US senators

BRUSSELS (AP) — The conversation taking place on the verified social media accounts of two U.S. senators remained vulnerable to manipulation, even amid heightened scrutiny in the run up to the U.S. presidential election, an investigation by the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence found.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO

Estonia won its war on fentanyl, then things got worse

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Igor Smirnov was introduced to opiates the day his first son was born, when he got celebratory drunk and a neighbor injected him with an intoxicating extract of opium poppies.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

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