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X Identified 200,000 Account China Bot Farm – 200 Accounts Were Anti US Data Centers

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X identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, they found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy. These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and st…

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  1. Just the News

    Social media platform X identified inauthentic Chinese accounts pushing data center opposition (opens Just the News)

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    The posts made claims about AI data centers driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense.

  2. Next Big Future

    X Identified 200,000 Account China Bot Farm – 200 Accounts Were Anti US Data Centers (opens Next Big Future)

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    X identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, they found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy. These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and st…

  3. Townhall

  4. Fox News

    Massive Chinese bot farm caught conducting US ‘influence operations’ pushing coordinated online narrative (opens Fox News)

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    X uncovered 200,000 inauthentic Chinese accounts pushing anti-AI and anti-data center narratives in the United States amid energy policy debates.

  5. Axios

    China is secretly fueling America's data center rage (opens Axios)

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    Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, X said Thursday night. Why it matters: The U.S. and China are racing to build the world's most advanced AI systems — and it appears Chinese propaganda has infil…

  6. FOX Business

    X reveals foreign adversary behind fake accounts disseminating anti-data center messaging (opens FOX Business)

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    X announced that it performed a probe "into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations" and uncovered some anti-data center accounts within a bot farm.

  7. Breitbart News

    EXCLUSIVE: National Security Experts Sound Alarm After X Uncovers Chinese Bot Farm Targeting U.S. Data Center/AI Debate (opens Breitbart News)

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    National security experts are sounding the alarm after X said it uncovered Chinese bots targeting U.S. debates over AI data centers and technology policy.

  8. Conservative Review

    Chinese Fake Accounts Push Anti-Data Center Drive (opens Conservative Review)

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    A network of Chinese fake social media accounts is spreading anti-data center material, the X platform warned, heightening concerns by members of Congress that the data center issue is being used by Beijing to divide Americans.

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