Fake accounts removed only to be replaced with new accounts

Twitter kicked fake accounts off the platform, driving down engagement with Chinese diplomats, only to have new accounts fill the void. Inauthentic accounts generated at least 30 to 50 percent of all the retweets China’s outgoing ambassador to the U.K. got most weeks.

Retweets collected Jun. 9, 2020 to Jan. 31, 2021
Source: Oxford Internet Institute