Online, the country’s propagandists have promoted a vision of the Games free of hostility or controversy.

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How Bots and Fake Accounts Push China’s Vision of Winter Olympic Wonderland <[link removed]> Online, the country’s propagandists have promoted a vision of the Games free of hostility or controversy. For example: The New York Times and ProPublica have identified over 3,000 inauthentic-looking Twitter accounts that appear in on the effort. by Steven Lee Myers and Paul Mozur, The New York Times, and Jeff Kao, ProPublica

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