X reveals foreign adversary behind fake accounts disseminating anti-data center messaging
X says it found a massive suspected Chinese bot farm amplifying outrage about AI data centers, and the controversy is now tangled with real grid costs, partisan polls, and federal probes into foreign funding that critics say is steering local opposition.
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X reveals foreign adversary behind fake accounts disseminating anti-data center messaging
Massive Chinese bot farm caught conducting US ‘influence operations’ pushing coordinated online narrative
Social media platform X identified inauthentic Chinese accounts pushing data center opposition