China’s Communist Youth League says Twitter accounts opened in its name are fake
It will ask the social media platform to close down ‘official’ accounts that have appeared this month
The Communist Party’s youth wing will ask Twitter to close down all accounts recently opened in its name on the social media platform, saying it did not set them up.
“We reserve the right to take any other legal action against [this infringement],” the Communist Youth League of China’s publicity office said in a statement on Wednesday.
The South China Morning Post reported on Sunday that the youth league had set up a Twitter account but the office on Wednesday confirmed that it had not opened any accounts.
At least two accounts claiming to be run by the youth league were set up earlier this month. Tweets from the accounts written in Chinese began appearing last week and the accounts were still up and running on Wednesday, with about 2,000 followers each.
The accounts were discovered by internet users on Sunday, both of which appeared to be genuine at first.