Cryptocurrency promoters on X amplify China-aligned disinformation.

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• BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A review of the account revealed that “Watermelon cloth” regularly posted content critical of social inequalities in the United States, the Ukrainian and Israeli governments

  Disinformation or common sense?

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  • Dot@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In one post, the account peddled the conspiracy theory that Washington was developing biological weapons in Ukraine.

    “The outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian war brought out an ‘unspeakable secret’ in the United States. US biological laboratory in Ukraine exposed,” the post said. X recently suspended Watermelon cloth’s account.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Jinan International Communication Center was the third most amplified account whose posts the cryptocurrency groups have shared. Its content was reposted over 2,200 times.

  This is literally inconsequential. Just VOA doing what it does: propaganda.

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  • Dot@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Jinan International Communication Center was established in 2022 to promote the history and culture of Jinan, capital of the Shandong province in Eastern China, to the rest of the world as part of Beijing’s “Tell China’s Story Well” propaganda initiative.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And what do you think VOA is doing? lol.

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