The social media platforms have been inundated with misinformation about the Hong Kong protests
that Chinese state-controlled media outlets have been using Twitter and Facebook advertisements in order to promote the Chinese Communist Party's narrative of the Hong Kong protests and delegitimize protesters. The advertisements have attempted to paint the Hong Kong protesters as the “public enemy” and promoted negative views of the protests as violent, disruptive, and influenced by foreign provocateurs.
The Chinese efforts to push their narrative on social media appears to be a propaganda campaign to spread their views of the situation in Hong Kong to the Western world, as Twitter and Facebook remain censored by the government in mainland China. “It’s very clear that the Chinese state media is essentially buying ads on Twitter and Facebook for the purpose of reaching an international audience as part of China’s effort to ‘tell its story better,’”.
Twitter said Monday that it had identified 936 accounts as part of a “coordinated state-backed operation” that was “deliberately and specifically attempting to sow political discord in Hong Kong, including undermining the legitimacy and political positions of the protest movement on the ground.
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