Incident 411: Chinese Accounts Spammed Twitter Feed Allegedly to Obscure News of Protests

Description: Twitter Feed was flooded by content from Chinese-language accounts which allegedly aimed to manipulate and reduce social media coverage about widespread protests against coronavirus restrictions in China.

Tools

New ReportNew ReportNew ResponseNew ResponseDiscoverDiscover
Alleged: Twitter developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Twitter and Twitter Users.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
411
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2022-11-27
Editors
Khoa Lam

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.