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Information operations directed at Hong Kong

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1116 points whatok | 1 comments | 19 Aug 19 18:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mortenjorck ◴[19 Aug 19 19:00 UTC] No.20740690[source]▶
The elephant left standing in the room is not the spam and bot accounts, but the official, state-actor accounts such as Xinhua News that pay for promoted tweets carrying the same message.

Granted this is likely beyond the scope of Twitter’s safety team, but this completely sidesteps the issues raised here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/twitter-is-blocked-in-chin...

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martey ◴[19 Aug 19 19:03 UTC] No.20740717[source]▶
See https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertisi..., which was posted to the Twitter blog at approximately the same time as this post.
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davedx ◴[19 Aug 19 19:17 UTC] No.20740858[source]▶
Very curious which entities get blocked by this policy.

Fox News? The Telegraph?

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1. bardworx ◴[19 Aug 19 19:37 UTC] No.20741037[source]▶
It’s in the article, you should read the content as your comment is coming off partisan.

Perhaps you know more than I about how different news orgs are funded and can contribute afterwards.