China Used Twitter To Disrupt Hong Kong Protests, But Efforts Began Years Earlier

Twitter and Facebook last month suspended hundreds of thousands of accounts and operations that they said were part of a Chinese state-linked disinformation campaign designed to discredit pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. A few days later, Google followed suit, banning 210 YouTube channels that it said it had identified as part of a similar disinformation effort. Twitter published a list of the