China-connected spamouflage impersonated Dutch cartoonist
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The fake account of Dutch cartoonist Bart van Leeuwen is seen on X on Sept. 17, 2024, before it was suspended.
Based on the posts of an X account that bears the name of Dutch cartoonist Bart van Leeuwen, a profile picture of his face and short professional bio, one would think the Amsterdam-based artist is a staunch supporter of China and fierce critic of the United States.
Reis Santo Vieira paints a boat on a dry part of the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River, during the dry season in Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 7, 2024. Residents transport drinking water from Humaita to the Paraizinho community, along the dry Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River, during the dry season, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 8, 2024.
The Soyuz-2.1 rocket booster with Soyuz MS-26 space ship blasts off in the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Sept. 11, 2024. (Ivan Timoshenko, Roscosmos space corporation, via AP) Expedition 72 crew members include NASA astronaut Don Pettit, left, Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner, right, pose on Sept. 10, 2024, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)