China’s Influence Campaign Targeting the Hong Kong Protests: What the Data...
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FireEye tracks the campaign from June and supplements Twitter’s public takedowns (about 14 million tweets) with 2.5 million additional tweets collected independently. Topic modeling uses an LDA with 50 topics to isolate 12 Hong Kong themes, yielding ~230,000 Hong Kong-related original tweets — 60k public vs 170k collected. Analysis shows many accounts created in mid‑April–June, batches of new accounts, hijacked and repurposed profiles, identical cross‑platform videos/comments, plagiarism of state media, and coordinated hashtag co‑option.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:42Disclaimers
- 5:28Narratives
- 13:39Example
- 15:26Breakdown
- 16:56Train Model
- 17:38Topic Breakdown
- 19:36Comparing the Data
- 19:57Account Age Distribution
- 20:59Account Following Distribution
- 22:04Content Related Data
- 23:03Outreach
- 23:20Hashtag Usage
- 24:02Hashtag Pushes
- 24:20Conclusion
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