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A valor thief in China uses social media and AI to cast his net. Same old scam taking advantage of new capabilities, which should surprise no one.<\/p>\n
Matthew Loh<\/strong><\/p>\n A man who claimed on Chinese TikTok that he was a Russian special forces operative was suspended from the platform on Saturday after it was revealed that he was a man in the Henan province trying to sell products online.<\/p>\n The content creator, who called himself Baoer Kechatie, had around 400,000 followers on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, before the social media company cracked down on his grift.<\/p>\n “Some accounts have been posting videos, claiming to be from Russia and soldiers at war. In that time, they spread false information such as ‘battlefield videos’ and ‘battlefield movements’ to attract attention and gain traffic,” Douyin wrote in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n The TikToker would make wild claims in his videos, saying he was a Chechnyan soldier deployed on the front line in Ukraine and that he even defeated US Marines and secured an M1911 pistol from one of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n