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no bull and the aftermath.

We started to see a couple months ago reports from researchers surfacing that they were

detecting networks of coordinated and an authentic behavior or other kinds of botnets that

were engaging in pro-CCP activities.

So essentially using kind of covert amplification tactics to boost the overt narratives that

we were seeing from Chinese officials and media.

We also saw a report in the New York Times that the intelligence community believed that

Chinese operatives in the US played a role in amplifying false text messages that were

disseminated and finally just late last week Twitter removed 170,000 accounts that were

linked to information operations attributed to China.

According to Jurassic and this is the LawFair podcast, June 18, 2020.

It's another episode of our Arbitus of Truth series on disinformation.

This week, Alina Polio-Cova and I spoke with Laura Rosenberger, the director of the Alliance

for Securing Democracy and a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

When it comes to information operations, most Americans probably think of Russia as the

primary culprit.

After all, the memory of Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election is still

fresh.

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