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1. paulmd+(OP)[view] [source] 2022-12-16 16:26:47
This is what I was thinking of. China was suppressing information about the protests online by having Twitter ban activists, arresting (and beating) journalists, and running a spam campaign at the same time to push the results out of the feed.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/elon-musk-slashed-tw...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/28/chinese-b...

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/twitte...

HRW points out the general problem here, predictably it came to pass less than a month later lol.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/11/02/why-twitter-under-elon-m...

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