Chinese embassy says its Twitter account was hacked: The embassy now blames hackers for a retweet that claims Democrats cheated in the 2020 election

The Chinese embassy in the U.S. said yesterday night that its Twitter account was hacked after its embassy retweeted a tweet from President Donald Trump that the Democrats cheated in the 2020 election. In a message posted on Twitter, the Embassy said:

“The Chinese Embassy twitter account was hacked this afternoon and we condemn such an act. For clarification, the Embassy didn’t do any retweeting on Dec.9.”

https://twitter.com/ChineseEmbinUS/status/1336888614052048897

The retweet was to the original tweet posted on Wednesday by President Trump which reads:

“If somebody cheated in the Election, which the Democrats did, why wouldn’t the Election be immediately overturned? How can a Country be run like this?”

The Chinese embassy retweeted it in a moment captured by David Shepardson, a Reuters reporter in Washington D.C. The embassy later claimed it was hacked, saying that it did not retweet anything on Wednesday, December 9, 2020.

Interesting retweet pic.twitter.com/5pdxSdPQyu

— David Shepardson (@davidshepardson) December 9, 2020