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The Washington Post reports:
Twitter’s radically reduced anti-propaganda team grappled on Sunday with a flood of nuisance content in China that researchers said was aimed at reducing the flow of news about stunning widespread protests against coronavirus restrictions.
Numerous Chinese-language accounts, some dormant for months or years, came to life early Sunday and started spamming the service with links to escort services and other adult offerings alongside city names.
The result: Anyone searching for posts from those cities and using the Chinese names for the locations would see pages and pages of useless tweets instead of information about the daring protests as they escalated to include calls for Communist Party leaders to resign.
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China is swarming twitter with spam to try to drown out coverage of the protests happening there — a big free speech issue that I hope @elonmusk will address.https://t.co/OF16cFTfyn
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 28, 2022
This account @amyyoung0425 joined Twitter in November 2015, but all of its 2000+ tweets were sent within the last 15 hours. There are MANY accounts like this.
— Mengyu Dong (@dong_mengyu) November 27, 2022