[32] These tweets proved Chinese social media influence operations were aimed, for the first time, at Western audiences. Uyghur Muslims in XinjiangChina’s social media approach to the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang exemplifies the shifts in narrative and audience for disinformation. China initially conducted its Western social media engagements via Twitter, largely through state-sponsored media accounts. [41]The information laundering model can be overlaid onto subsequent Xinjiang social media efforts. Guo ran a social media enterprise (Guo Media) originally established to promote anti-CCP narratives, but now noted for its disinformation campaigns on COVID, U.S. election-fraud, and Hunter Biden.

Source: New York Times September 07, 2023 04:03 UTC