Angry Chinese Twitter users are exposing pro-Russian sentiment in China.

Hong Kong: Anonymous Twitter users are exposing China’s online extremism and pro-Russian sentiment – and Beijing is not pleased.

Dozens of screen-grabbed posts from China’s most popular social media platforms have been translated and shared on Twitter in the last few weeks. This gives Westerners a rare look at the Chinese internet.

Military blogs, a well-known media commentator, a vlogger with hundreds of thousands of followers, and even a well-known military blog all made false claims about the attack on the train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine.

The posts come from anonymous Twitter users who say their goal is to show Western audiences how much pro-Russian or nationalistic content there is on China’s heavily censored platforms.

“The Great Translation Movement” is a hashtag that people often use to talk about translations of popular posts about Ukraine and other hot topics. They’re often shared by an account with the same name run by a decentralized, anonymous team that crowdsources the collection and translation of popular posts on Ukraine and other topics, says an administrator who spoke to CNN. Many, but not all, of the choices seem to have been popular or shared in China, which is how the administrator chose them.

Starting in early March, the account has made both friends and enemies. It has more than 116,000 followers (and counting) and has been criticized by China’s state-run media a lot, but it is still going strong.

When China claimed to be neutral on Ukraine, but its state and social media were spreading pro-Russian stories, the movement was born, the group’s administrator told CNN.

“We want the outside world to at least know what is going on inside, because we don’t think there could be any change made from inside,” said the administrator, who requested anonymity due to security concerns.

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