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X's Safety team identified around 200 accounts tied to a suspected Chinese bot

X's Safety team identified around 200 accounts tied to a suspected Chinese bot farm. The posts reportedly focused on how AI development strains the electricity grid. Some accounts even shared cartoons portraying data center operators as profiting off the public at everyone else's expense. If confirmed, this would suggest Chinese propaganda efforts have found their way into American online spaces, with the apparent goal of slowing down U.S. X has apparently identified roughly 200 accounts tied to a suspected Chinese bot farm pushing Americans to oppose AI data centers, though critics argue the backlash is largely genuine., US News, Times Now

Why it matters. Why it matters: X's Safety team identified around 200 accounts tied to a suspected Chinese bot farm.

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