Basically, when somebody receives a new piece of information they need to decide whether to believe it. One way they can do this is check whether they trust the source; is the person giving me the information usually authentic? A threat actor can hijack someone’s credibility by accessing their social media accounts (for example by using stolen passwords), and posting as them.
ISD has identified a small network of 33 Twitter accounts that appear to have been hijacked and used to spread pro-CCP (Chinese Communist Party) narratives. The network includes the verified account of the French MP Bernard Reynès and the account of Liliana Pérez Pazo, a local politician in Spain.
The BBC found evidence that at least some of the Facebook pages and accounts originally belonged to users from Bangladesh before they were either hijacked or sold and repurposed to post in Chinese. These accounts had multiple personal pictures on their timelines, listed users predominantly from Bangladesh among their Facebook friends and sometimes even exchanged comments in Bengali on their timelines, before abruptly changing their language and identity overnight.
By Benjamin Strick, Olga Robinson and Shayan Sardarizadeh on 28 May 2020
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