Twitter search results for '北京' (Beijing) and '上海' (Shanghai) are showing tweets about porn and gambling, obscuring content related to protests in China against its 'zero COVID' policy. Over 95% tweets in 'Beijing' search results are reportedly from spam accounts. "Chinese bots are flooding Twitter...to make it...difficult...to access information about...protests," said tech analyst Mengyu Dong.
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Ashley Paul /
08:12 pm on
28 Nov