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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: 0.31s | 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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CobrastanJorji ◴[19 Aug 19 19:27 UTC] No.20740952[source]▶
So, wait...is the BBC no longer allowed to advertise upcoming shows on Twitter?
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1. CaliforniaKarl ◴[19 Aug 19 19:44 UTC] No.20741116[source]▶
They might not be able to pay for ads, but they could still use their Twitter accounts:

>Any affected accounts will be free to continue to use Twitter to engage in public conversation, just not our advertising products.