GOP lawmaker Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said foreign actors are helping manufacture political divisions in the U.S. after X said it uncovered roughly 200,000 suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts, including hundreds targeting America’s artificial intelligence and energy debate.
Luna Warns Foreign Actors Fuelling Division
"X reveals it uncovered a Chinese bot farm of roughly 200,000 accounts," Luna wrote Thursday. She added that "the divide that you’re seeing in this country is largely manufactured by foreign countries like China."
X’s Global Government Affairs team on Thursday said that its Safety investigation identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts in the broader network. Crucially, X said about 200 of those accounts posted in ways that "could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy."
The accounts claimed AI data centers were driving up household electricity bills and straining the grid. Some also circulated AI-generated cartoons portraying data-center operators as enriching themselves at the public’s expense, according to X.
