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X allows China-based propaganda banned on other platforms — 81 campaign accounts falsely posing as Americans are still active on X, after being flagged last November
X accused of overlooking propaganda flagged by Meta and criminal prosecutors.
Lax content moderation on X (aka Twitter) has disrupted coordinated efforts between social media companies and law enforcement to tamp down on "propaganda accounts controlled by foreign entities aiming to influence US politics," The Washington Post reported. Meta, Google, and then-Twitter began coordinating takedown efforts with law enforcement and disinformation researchers after Russian-backed influence campaigns manipulated their platforms in hopes of swaying the 2016 US presidential election. The accounts also comment on hot-button topics like the fentanyl problem or police brutality, seemingly to convey "a sense of dismay over the state of America without any clear partisan bent," Elise Thomas, an analyst for a London nonprofit called the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, told The Post.
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