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Press: ENTER THE MATRIX Inside China’s chilling network of AI generated PEOPLE on Facebook & Twitter spreading anti-vaxx lies & Covid fake news

5 August 2021

The Sun

CHINA has a sprawling creepy network of AI generated people who it uses to spread anti-vaxx lies and fake news about Covid. DemTech researcher Hannah Bailey discusses inauthentic users in this piece.

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