Posted on 11/27/2022 8:59:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Twitter’s radically reduced anti-propaganda team grappled on Sunday with a flood of nuisance content in China that researchers said was aimed at reducing the flow of news about stunning widespread protests against coronavirus restrictions.
Numerous Chinese-language accounts, some dormant for months or years, came to life early Sunday and started spamming the service with links to escort services and other adult offerings alongside city names.
The result: For hours, anyone searching for posts from those cities and using the Chinese names for the locations would see pages and pages of useless tweets instead of information about the daring protests as they escalated to include calls for Communist Party leaders to resign.
It is not the first time that suspected government-connected accounts have used the technique, according to a recently departed Twitter employee. But in the past, it was used to discredit a single account or a small group by naming them in the escort ads.
“This is a known problem that our team was dealing with manually, aside from automations we put in place,” said the former employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid retribution for disclosing internal processes.
In mass layoffs and resignations, Twitter’s overall staff has been slashed from about 7,500 to roughly 2,000, surviving employees estimated. Some groups, including those dealing with human rights issues, safety concerns and deceptive foreign influence operations, have been reduced to a handful of people or no staff at all.
Sunday’s campaign was “another exhibit where there are now even larger holes to fill,” the ex-employee said. “All the China influence operations and analysts at Twitter all resigned.”
The campaign was spotted by researchers at Stanford University and elsewhere. Stanford Internet Observatory Director Alex Stamos said his team is working to determine how widespread and effective it is.
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As if pre-Musk Twitter wasn’t 100% in favor of ChiCom Covid tyranny.
“useless tweets”....
From the redundant Dept. of redundancy?
To watch the MSM that *issed on COVID protests in this country and others like Canada, Australia and New Zealand all of the sudden get excited about these protests in China.
You know the fix is in they are getting instructions from corporate-government-intelligence handlers.
Have patience WAPO.
It takes time to be rid of disease.
MSM and the WP collaborating to address misleading information.
Now that makes sense. /s
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SURELY Twitter can implement a slightly modified version of Google’s “Safe Search”... that users can manage settings of... The tech is hardly new.
They want us to believe there were 5500 people manually going through tweets from Chinese sources and deleting them.
The chicoms have run out their jamming trucks also to jam communications between people and send out communications.
This is nationwide.
Notice how the hugest news story becomes about Musk bad.
As stupid as our covid policies were, they compare nothing to Zero Covid.
The MSM are generally not really excited about these. They downplay it.
Mistranslate chants etc…
They’re trying to smear Musk.
Chicoms are spamming and trying to block any info getting out.
MSM spinning it as if Musk has hurt Twitter.
Yes. It’s ludicrous compost crap.
Yes, I agree.
Any news from Twitter will be cast that way from here on out.
I like that one better than mine.
Then use it any time you like.
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