The accts signal a potential tactical shift in how #China aims to #influence American #politics, w/more of a willingness to target specific candidates & parties, including Biden.
The accts mocked #Biden’s age & shared fake images of him in a prison jumpsuit, or claimed that Biden was a Satanist pedophile QAnon [#propaganda] while promoting #Trump’s #MAGA slogan.
“I’ve never seen anything along those lines at all before,” said Elise Thomas, a snr analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a nonprofit research org that uncovered some of the fake accts….