SCMP | Bots or people? Pro-China disinformation campaigns make it hard to tell

Twitter’s crackdown on pro-China accounts attacking Hong Kong protesters reveals how bots and real people combine to spread disinformation

This article originally appeared on ABACUS

James Albert has been a Twitter user since 2010. He’s based in the US and often shares basketball gossip, along with ads for a K-pop website. More recently, he’s been tweeting about protests in Hong Kong.

But there’s a good chance James Albert isn’t a real person.