The dubious accounts tweeting about the NBA controversy display spikes in activity which coincide with political events in Hong Kong
ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 4th Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, a National Basketball Association team, posted a tweet in support of protesters in Hong Kong that read “Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong”. The tweet, tame by American standards, sparked a furore in China, including among thousands of nationalists on Chinese social media.
The results show that nearly a quarter of the accounts tweeting about the NBA in the days after the incident had a higher than 50% chance of being bots or trolls. Many of these “suspect” accounts were created soon after Mr Morey’s tweet. Indeed, in the following week, the number of new suspect accounts increased by 400% over the previous seven days. In that earlier week, about 47% of the newly-created accounts in our sample were suspected of malicious activity by the machine-learning algorithm.
China may be involved in broader social-media propaganda efforts. , such as when Carrie Lam, the territory’s embattled chief executive, promised in September that a controversial draft bill allowing the extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong to China would be withdrawn. This is not surprising; the Chinese government has previously used social media to spread misinformation about political events, especially the recent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. In total, 33% of the accounts identified as suspect by
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