Recent changes at Twitter have benefited accounts operated by authoritarian governments in Russia, China and Iran, making it easier for them to attract new followers and broadcast propaganda and disinformation to a larger audience, researchers said.
— something it regularly does for ordinary accounts as a way to help them reach bigger audiences.
Reset's conclusions were confirmed by the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, where researchers determined the changes were likely made by Twitter late last month. Many of the dozens of previously labeled accounts were steadily losing followers since Twitter began using the labels. But after the change, many accounts saw big jumps in followers.
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