Twitter claims to have uncovered a large-scale campaign from China that was designed to discredit the protests in Hong Kong.
The short message service made 936 accounts, over which coordinated „political controversy in Hong Kong should be sown“. In addition, a network of around 200,000 accounts had been blocked before it could develop any significant activity, Twitter announced yesterday.
Facebook removed five accounts, seven pages and three groups with a similar justification. At least one of the pages followed around 15,500 Facebook profiles.
Both services showed examples of contributions in which, for example, demonstrators in Hong Kong were portrayed as violent.
