Twitter on Friday said it had removed tens of thousands of 'state linked' accounts used by China, Russia and Turkey to push their own propaganda...
Twitter on Friday said it had removed tens of thousands of “state linked” accounts used by China, Russia and Turkey to push their own propaganda, sow misinformation or attack critics.
The current network had “failed to achieve considerable traction” but was “involved in a range of manipulative and coordinated activities”. As well as pushing Beijing’s narrative on the Hong Kong protests, the network did the same for the coronavirus pandemic and criticising Taiwan. Twitter — along with YouTube, Google and Facebook — is banned in China, which uses a “Great Firewall” to scrub its internet and censor negative information.
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