Twitter may have reduced the influence of China’s propaganda
Labelling state media accounts helps readers understand where tweets are coming from
TWITTER ACCOUNTS linked with China’s state media have been busy this month, as usual. They have questioned the safety of covid-19 vaccines made in the West while promoting China’s own. They have floated theories (again) about the pandemic having started somewhere other than China. They have promoted Potemkin tales of happy Uyghurs in Xinjiang, while attacking Western reports about horrors there. A misleading English-language video tweeted by China Daily called the BBC the “Biased Broadcasting Corporation”.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Wolf taming”
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