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‘Picture your MAGA auntie's Twitter account’: Why a Chinese disinformation group started imitating Americans

Apr 11, 202418 minTranscript available on Metacast
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The Chinese disinformation network known as Spamouflage has never gotten much traction on social media. Then, a small number of accounts started pretending to be American. On POLITICO Tech, senior analyst Elise Thomas from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue explains why pro-Trump and anti-Biden tweets from a group with ties to the Chinese Communist Party may signal deeper concerns about 2024 election interference.