China Coup 2022
Fake news of supposed coup in China spread on Twitter and TikTok.
Rumors flooded social media that a military coup was taking place in China, and that President Xi Jinpeng was under house arrest. The peak came on September 24, when there was a 2,172% increase in misinformation related to the hoax. Cyabra scanned more than 10,000 profiles and found that 2% of them were inauthentic, and were responsible for 8.8% of misleading posts.
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