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So here's the thread on Huawei I promised yesterday. It seems Huawei is using social media black ops tactics to try to convince policy-makers in Belgium that it can be trusted to build 5G networks. 🤨
My attention was piqued this weekend when I saw a promoted tweet by someone called Mike Bai in my timeline. His timeline suggests he normally tweets in English, but this tweet was in poor Dutch. I've seen many promoted tweets from him since.
The tweet calls for an end to the "politics of hide and seek" and for "seleciton criteria to be exposed" (literal English translation of the poor Dutch). The tweet links to an article entitled "Belgium and 5G - a complicated relationship". So far no textual reference to Huawei.
A check on LinkedIn reveals that Mike is "President of Strategy Marketing Western Europe" for Huawei Technologies.
Mike is also, according to his Twitter page, "one of the Top 100 #Global #ThoughLeaders and #Influencers to follow in 2020 by @MagazineAwards". The tweet was pinned to his profile on Sunday but has since been unpinned. Link to tweet: https://t.co/r7fk8yo83H

My attention was piqued this weekend when I saw a promoted tweet by someone called Mike Bai in my timeline. His timeline suggests he normally tweets in English, but this tweet was in poor Dutch. I've seen many promoted tweets from him since.

The tweet calls for an end to the "politics of hide and seek" and for "seleciton criteria to be exposed" (literal English translation of the poor Dutch). The tweet links to an article entitled "Belgium and 5G - a complicated relationship". So far no textual reference to Huawei.
A check on LinkedIn reveals that Mike is "President of Strategy Marketing Western Europe" for Huawei Technologies.

Mike is also, according to his Twitter page, "one of the Top 100 #Global #ThoughLeaders and #Influencers to follow in 2020 by @MagazineAwards". The tweet was pinned to his profile on Sunday but has since been unpinned. Link to tweet: https://t.co/r7fk8yo83H

Really proud and excited to be named one of the Top 100 #Global #ThoughLeaders and #Influencers to follow in 2020 by @MagazineAwards !
— Mike BAI (@Mike_IMC) October 28, 2020
Thanks a lot for the great recognition. \U0001f64f\U0001f64f\U0001f64f#TECH4ALLhttps://t.co/PaQz31hNM3