Pro-China X (formerly Twitter) accounts are running a coordinated campaign against President Marcos Jr. and the Philippines’ West PH Sea efforts while amplifying content favoring VP Sara Duterte.
Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) temporarily restricted a network of Chinese-linked accounts involved in coordinated attacks against President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. after his signing of landmark laws asserting Manila’s rights over the West Philippine Sea.
A wave of suspicious X (formerly Twitter) accounts simultaneously posted screenshots of the debunked “polvoron” video, which falsely showed President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. using illegal drugs, just days after the Philippines passed laws asserting its sovereignty over the West Philippine Sea.
Months after TikTok banned MediaUnlocked, an affiliate channel of the Chinese state-run media giant China Daily, the page has been reinstated with its original number of followers and likes. However, all content related to the West Philippine Sea has apparently been deleted.
After TikTok banned the state-run China Daily’s account from its platform, a new account with a similar name and logo has surfaced, already amassing hundreds of thousands of followers and millions of likes despite having no content posted.