A network security company and Australian experts in Israel said that a Chinese official's photo posted on Twitter's Australian soldier caused a strong response from the Australian government. This Twitter was amplified by unusual accounts on social media, of whichHalf may be fake.
According to Reuters, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Zhao Lijian posted a digital photo on Twitter on Monday. In the photo, an Australian soldier was holding a bloody knife and pierced the throat of an Afghan child.
Twitter rejected Australia to delete this tweet.
Last Friday, the Chinese Embassy in Canberra told the Radio Corporation (ABC) TV that Australian Prime Minister Morrison asked apologies, which made people pay more attention to the war investigation of the Australian soldiers in Afghanistan.
Israeli network security company Cyabra said that Zhao Lijian's tweets are likely to be carefully planned.
Cyabra said they found that more than 50 % of the accounts were fake, which was evidence of a carefully planned false information promotional activity.The company did not disclose any details about who was behind the scenes.
Cyabra said that they analyzed 1344 personal information and found that many people were created and used once in November, and then forwarded Zhao Lijian's tweet.
China claims that Cyabra's statement has nothing to do. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in response to media inquiries later yesterday that this is a typical example of spreading false information.Twitter has its own rules in the management tweet.
Tim Graham of Queensland University of Science and Technology analyzed Zhao Lijian's 10,000 reply after analyzing Zhao Lijian's account most active, 8%of the accounts created from the day or 24 hours ago.Many files contain duplicate text.
They are either a tweets about Afghan children, or they are about Hong Kong.Graham said that if they have enough, then these irregular behaviors indicate that they are set up for specific activities.
Graham said that since June, data sets of 37,000 Chinese accounts on Australia have confirmed the identity of some of these accounts.
Ariel Bogle, a researcher at the Australian Institute of Strategic Policy, said that she also noticed unusual behavior when it was reposted or liked Zhao Lijian's tweet.
Bogle said that on November 30 and December 1, the number of people created accounts surged.However, she added that it is too early to determine whether this is a coordinated unreal or personal patriotic behavior.
