EXCLUSIVE_ X Takes Down Network of Chinese Accounts Amplifying NYT Attacks on Shen Yun

THE EPOCH TIMES

EXCLUSIVE

X Takes Down Network of Chinese Accounts Amplifying NYT Attacks on Shen Yun

An Epoch Times investigation exposed thousands of fake and malicious accounts that spread CCP propaganda, including via Western media.

By Petr Svab | March 07, 2025 Updated: March 07, 2025


Thousands of accounts with suspected links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have been removed by social media platform X over the past month.

The accounts, which exhibited inauthentic activity, had been used to boost articles published by The New York Times that targeted a religious group persecuted in China.

One of the articles, a Chinese-language version of an attack piece on Shen Yun Performing Arts, was boosted so much it became the most shared New York Times article on X in more than a year, according to data from BuzzSumo, a social media analytics tool.

“It looks like a nation-state automated bot attack,” said Rex Lee, a cybersecurity expert at My Smart Privacy who has advised major corporations and government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency.

Most of the accounts were taken down by X after The Epoch Times sent the platform the results of an extensive investigation into the issue. The platform then launched its own investigation.

“We take reports like these very seriously, and continue to action millions of accounts per week for platform manipulation and spam violations,” Dave Heinzinger, X’s head of media strategy, told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement.

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