SurveillanceMedium
Chinese Accounts Spammed Twitter Feed Allegedly to Obscure News of Protests
- Occurred
- Nov 27, 2022
- Published
- Nov 27, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Twitter Feed was flooded by content from Chinese-language accounts which allegedly aimed to manipulate and reduce social media coverage about widespread protests against coronavirus restrictions in China.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- X (Twitter) users
Classification
Category confidence: 75%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Incident involves coordinated inauthentic behavior to manipulate public discourse, fitting surveillance/monitoring context.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8