Hong Kong: It has been jokingly referred to as “Botmageddon”. But a surge in new, anonymous Twitter accounts across South-East and East Asia has deepened fears the region is in the throes of US-style mass social media manipulation.
Maya Gilliss-Chapman, a Cambodian tech entrepreneur currently working in Silicon Valley, noticed something odd was happening in early April.
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