Dracula Network Pushes Out Pro-China Twitter Spam

Eagle-eyed social network analysts have spotted a new Chinese influence operation on Twitter dubbed the “Dracula botnet.” The network of inauthentic automated accounts was found to be pushing out pro-China political spam, according to Graphika’s Ben Nimmo. The botnet was so-named because the profile bios of all of its accounts are scraped from the famous Bram Stoker novel.

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