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How One Tweet Turned Pro-China Trolls Against the NBA
‘This wasn’t primarily a bot swarm. It was a troll mob.’ After his tweet supporting Hong Kong’s protesters, the Houston Rockets’ general manager was the subject of a pro-China campaign.
LeBron James wasn’t the only Twitter user who thought Daryl Morey’s tweet supporting Hong Kong’s protesters was misinformed. There was a whole army of pro-China troll accounts that happened to agree.
A review of nearly 170,000 tweets, plus analysis from expert information warfare researchers, shows that Morey was the target of what appears to be a coordinated harrasement campaign (the pay wall cuts me off here)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-one-tweet-turned-pro-china-trolls-against-the-nba-11571238943
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