{"id":56032,"date":"2020-08-28T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/twitter-suspends-dracula-botnet-pushing-pro-chinese-propaganda\/"},"modified":"2020-08-28T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T18:00:00","slug":"twitter-suspends-dracula-botnet-pushing-pro-chinese-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/twitter-suspends-dracula-botnet-pushing-pro-chinese-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"#Twitter suspends \u2018Dracula\u2019 botnet pushing pro-Chinese propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Twitter<\/a> suspends \u2018Dracula\u2019 botnet pushing pro-Chinese propaganda<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n By Bradford Betz, Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

August 28, 2020 |<\/span> 2:00pm <\/p>\n

\n Twitter has suspended or restricted nearly all 3,000 accounts linked to a \u201cDracula\u201d botnet pushing pro-Chinese political propaganda.<\/p>\n

The network of fake Twitter accounts was first flagged by Graphika, a social media research group.<\/p>\n

The \u201cDracula\u201d botnet accounts were so named because each account used quotes from Bram Stoker\u2019s 1897 novel for its descript<\/a>ion and first two tweets.<\/p>\n

The group said the operation only managed to amass about 3,000 accounts and the oldest one dated back to no further than a month ago.<\/p>\n

Ben Nimmo who reported on the botnet account in a blog post from Graphika said the botnet has been taken down since August 20.<\/p>\n

Nimmo said Twitter has taken down most of the \u201cDracula\u201d accounts and restricted others from posting new content. It was unclear if the botnets were suspended by Twitter\u2019s algorithm or the social media giant manually intervened.<\/p>\n

Nimmo said the amplification was unlikely to have reached authentic users, but \u201cthey highlight the way in which fake accounts, spam and influence operations overlap and reinforce one another.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFake accounts such as these are the plankton in the disinformation sea: they appear insignificant individually, but they can feed larger, more sophisticated operations,\u201d Nimmo wrote. \u201cthey can also reveal them, if a set of unauthentic accounts providing commercial amplification suddenly turns to geopolitical themes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Graphika has previously exposed Twitter botnet accounts promoting pro-Beijing propaganda.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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