{"id":27433,"date":"2021-01-28T04:02:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T19:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/27\/chinese-bots-eric-trump-ballot-votes-viral-video"},"modified":"2021-01-28T04:02:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T19:02:30","slug":"chinese-bots-had-key-role-in-debunked-ballot-video-shared-by-eric-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27433","title":{"rendered":"Chinese bots had key role in debunked ballot video shared by Eric Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Sophisticated and disciplined\u2019 network promoted a viral video misleadingly showing votes being burned, research reveals<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese bot network played a key role in spreading disinformation during and after the US election, including a debunked video of \u201cballot burning\u201d shared by Eric Trump, a new study reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The misleading video shows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/11\/watch-video-man-claiming-burning-stolen-trump-ballots-goes-viral-social-media\/\">a man filming himself on Virginia Beach, allegedly burning votes cast for Donald Trump<\/a>. The ballots were actually samples. The clip went viral after Trump\u2019s son Eric <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricTrump\/status\/1324088311644856327\">posted it a day later on his official Twitter page<\/a>, where it got more than 1.2m views.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/27\/chinese-bots-eric-trump-ballot-votes-viral-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Sophisticated and disciplined\u2019 network promoted a viral video misleadingly showing votes being burned, research revealsA Chinese bot network played a key role in spreading disinformation during and after the US election, including a debunked video of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,235,58,350,1136,47,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-social-media","category-technology","category-twitter","category-us-elections-2020","category-us-news","category-us-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27485,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27433\/revisions\/27485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}