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Red Astroturf: Chinese Government Makes Millions of Fake Social Media Posts


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Pro-China, Calgary, 2008

That groundswell of online support for Chinese Communist Party and government officials? Not so much actually grassroots.

Credit: Robert Thivierge

Data scientists at Harvard University have found that the government of the People's Republic of China generates an estimated 448 million fake social media posts per year.

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