On the Smear Campaign Against a Dissident Writer

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2014-08-29

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On Monday, August 25, an article titled “the Life of Murong Xuecun” was retweeted nearly a thousand times by more than a hundred twitter accounts. The article, using vulgar language, describes Murong as a traitor, liar, cheater, child molester and domestic abuser.

Upon investigation, it is found that most of those twitter accounts that retweeted the article were registered in 2014. The majority of them were registered in July and August. The accounts’ average number of followers is about ten. Some have zero followers. A further investigation on seven of those tweets about Murong found that the seven tweets were retweeted more than 800 times by only 160 twitter accounts. This means that on average, the same message was retweeted by each account for more than five times.

Clearly, it was an organized smear campaign against Murong. But why?

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