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'Chinese patriots' or propagandists? Social media platforms block some accounts amid Hong Kong protests

BEIJING - He said he is 30, the father of one child, and loves Chinese poetry, literature and the guqin, a seven-stringed traditional instrument dating back thousands of years.

On social media, he is Ou Lu Wang Ji, the name of a famous piece of guqin music about a fisherman and a flock of seagulls.

He is also among the hundreds of people in China whose Twitter or Facebook accounts were suspended this week after the platforms said they had discovered a Chinese government-backed network engaged in a propaganda campaign against Hong Kong's protest movement.

"My Facebook account was blocked," Ou Lu Wang Ji, who declined to

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