that article is total bullshit. their evidence that the tweets are from shills is that between 5 and 10 percent of accounts who have retweeted pro china things have been suspended. even if there was enough suspensions to infer anything, which there's not, correlation does not imply causation. more likely for the suspensions is that people brigade report anything pro china, and that people who are willing to re-tweet pro china shit don't give a fuck about some corporate websites terms of use.
they also fault twitter for not labeling everyone who works for the chinese government as a chinese government account, meanwhile there are hundreds of members of congress who use twitter, and most of these are not labeled 'us government account' either.
that article is total bullshit. their evidence that the tweets are from shills is that between 5 and 10 percent of accounts who have retweeted pro china things have been suspended. even if there was enough suspensions to infer anything, which there's not, correlation does not imply causation. more likely for the suspensions is that people brigade report anything pro china, and that people who are willing to re-tweet pro china shit don't give a fuck about some corporate websites terms of use.
they also fault twitter for not labeling everyone who works for the chinese government as a chinese government account, meanwhile there are hundreds of members of congress who use twitter, and most of these are not labeled 'us government account' either.
ap is fucking garbage.
FTFY