This is a must read thread.
China launched a massive social media campaign to get other countries to lockdown and destroy their economies.
Presumably to close down foreign competitor companies to Chinese exports
https://twitter.com/CllrBSilvester/status/1297659583910027264
3/5 But CCP's campaign wasn't limited to Italy. The article states that this Tweet advertising China's lockdown policy to the world is fake. It has 142,000 likes.
Tweets like this prove CCP was actively selling the world on Wuhan-style lockdowns in early March. pic.twitter.com/eVHELKCCBj
— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) June 11, 2020
5/5 The sheer scale of this operation and the number of accounts involved, and its influence around the world, is really remarkable.
Thousands of accounts tweeting incessantly about COVID hysteria, then pivoting to incessant BLM and anti-police propaganda, in every country.
— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) June 11, 2020
7/5 More than 50 NIH scientists fired due to China ties. Hundreds more under investigation.
By co-opting scientists and academics while aggressively promoting lockdowns through social media propaganda, China made lockdown pseudoscience seem sound.https://t.co/BgbpBuutGc
— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) June 15, 2020
9/5 In speech this morning at @HudsonInstitute, @FBI director Chris Wray says CCP specifically approached local politicians to endorse its COVID lockdowns.https://t.co/iDk81Z6gcB https://t.co/NSAJdhqF6W
— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) July 7, 2020
11/5 This collage is a tiny sample of the fake accounts CCP used to popularize COVID lockdowns.
In these Tweets, CCP sends its regards to the world by denigrating every other government in the world, using many dialects, and contrasting them with its authoritarian "success." pic.twitter.com/azrUDDl0Wy
— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) July 14, 2020
13/5 Twitter responded the following day by saying they'd removed the 170,000 accounts in this campaign. https://t.co/hFyhDLSVae
But Twitter lied. These fake CCP accounts, and presumably hundreds of thousands of others, are still doing CCP's bidding.
fake French Tweets— pic.twitter.com/BzCBIpYw6c
— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) July 14, 2020
15/5 “Sweden—partly due to its own COVID-19 response—has been a prime target of a Chinese campaign portraying Western democracies as weak against the threat. Sweden is one of few countries that ordered no lockdown and put its faith in herd immunity.”https://t.co/4PbDS0QGKx
— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) July 24, 2020
17/ In CCP interview, Editor-in-Chief of Lancet praises CCP’s lockdowns:
"not only the right thing to do, but it also showed other countries how they should respond in the face of such an acute threat. So, I think we have a great deal to thank China for"https://t.co/wpUPBiF3LG
— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) August 6, 2020
19/ South Dakota Governor @govkristinoem famously refused to issue a state lockdown.
Her decision didn't sit well with Beijing. CCP's army of fake accounts began filling her Twitter feed with abuse to punish her disobedience and pressure her to shut down her state. pic.twitter.com/TGuHwpt629
— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) August 10, 2020
21/ @BorisJohnson initially opted for herd immunity. But on Mar 13, four days after Italy's lockdown, CCP began storming his feed, likening his plan to genocide. These words almost never appear in his feed before Mar 12.
Tragically, the abuse worked, and UK locked down Mar 23. pic.twitter.com/RPM4NmYS4H
— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) August 16, 2020
23/ Physicist Yaneer Bar-Yam has spent months uncritically cheerleading China's lockdowns—including CCP's genocidal lockdown in Xinjiang—and promoting China's obviously-fraudulent data.
In February, Bar-Yam launched a website recommending strict lockdowns in 18 languages. pic.twitter.com/JVKrkYCdzQ
— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) August 18, 2020
25/ India is a key rival of China, so CCP disinformation there is especially nasty.
On March 23, CCP's army of fake accounts implored PM @PMOIndia to lock down India and order the army to "shoot on sight" to enforce it. The next day, Modi announced a destructive lockdown. pic.twitter.com/m66rarOFiE
— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) August 24, 2020
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