Chinese Embassy Says Hackers Behind Retweet of Trump Election Fraud Claim – By John Feng (Newsweek) / Dec 10 2020
Hackers infiltrated the official Twitter account of the Chinese Embassy and retweeted a claim by President Donald Trump that the Democratic Party had committed election fraud, Beijing’s Washington office claimed on Wednesday.
The embassy’s clarification came after Twitter users noticed its account had retweeted a Trump post reading: “If somebody cheated in the Election, which the Democrats did, why wouldn’t the Election be immediately overturned? How can a Country be run like this?”
Another social media intern in big trouble. https://t.co/raAB88zN83 pic.twitter.com/2J4VCfpjmu
— Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) (@froomkin) December 10, 2020
Trump’s post, which has been liked more than 245,000 times, was flagged by Twitter as disputed—and China’s embassy in Washington, D.C., quickly undid the retweet, which appeared to suggest that Beijing shared the president’s views.
