Chinese bots spammed Twitter with porn, which buried news about COVID-19 protests in China, report says
Chinese bots on Twitter on Sunday began posting spam, which researchers said aimed to bury news about anti-lockdown protests,Several previously dormant Chinese-language accounts started flooding the platform with spam, including porn, per the publication.
Many posts from the accounts, which, according to the Post, were suspected to be linked to the government, contained URLs for escort websites and adult content alongside city names. This served to restrict information about protests against China's zero-COVID policies, the Post reported. A Twitter employee told a researcher that the company was aware of the problem by midday Sunday and seeking to address it. A US government contractor told the Post that by the evening, the feed was"fifty percent porn, 50 percent protests."
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