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Twitter searches for China protests bombarded by spam and porn, raising alarms among researchers
CNN ^ | Nov 28 2022 | Brian Fung

Posted on 11/29/2022 12:41:52 PM PST by euram

Twitter searches for the widespread Covid-19-related protests in China are returning a flood of spam, pornography and gibberish that some disinformation researchers say at first glance appear to be a deliberate attempt by the Chinese government or its allies to drown out images of the demonstrations.

Beginning late last week and into Monday, searches in Chinese for major protest hotspots, including Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Guangzhou, produced a nonstop stream of solicitations, images of scantily clad women in suggestive poses and seemingly random word- and sentence fragments. Many of the tweets reviewed by CNN on Monday came from accounts that had been created months ago, follow virtually no other accounts and have no followers of their own.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: china

1 posted on 11/29/2022 12:41:52 PM PST by euram
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To: euram
I am SO disappointed in Elon Musk's Twitter right now.

I went to Twitter and searched for "China Protests."

I scrolled through pages and pages of results, and I found hundreds of videos showing rioting and protests, but NOT ONE BIT OF PORN WAS TO BE FOUND.

C'mon, elon. If they say there's a bunch of porn clogging up the search results, then by golly there aught to be a bunch of porn clogging up the search results!

2 posted on 11/29/2022 12:46:58 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: euram

China’s Hacking Corps


3 posted on 11/29/2022 12:47:12 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (I Miss Jimmy Carter)
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To: Yo-Yo

protesting is porn to leftards. That’s all they care about. They’re pissed about anything.


4 posted on 11/29/2022 12:48:44 PM PST by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Yes.

This is bs. Exaggerated greatly.

It is 100% true Chicoms have tried this and other means to minimize information getting out.

But these reports are already outdated and meant only to attack Musk who is becoming Emmanuel Goldstein.


5 posted on 11/29/2022 12:51:14 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Yo-Yo
True story: me,in Hong Kong,2017. Out of curiosity I tried to google "Tienanmen Square".For some reason I couldn't get google dot com after numerous attempts...only google dot cn (the country code for China.

All you saw were peaceful photos of the Square with Mao looking lovingly down. Not a single dead body...not a single bloody body...not a single crowd holding up a cardboard likeness of the Statue of Liberty.

China has no problem interfering with the internet.

6 posted on 11/29/2022 12:54:13 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (I Miss Jimmy Carter)
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To: euram

If I actually saw porn every time I read this story, I might be considered a porn addict. No porn in my search results. 0. None.


7 posted on 11/29/2022 12:59:56 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: euram

Predictably tepid response from our media and the left over these historic protests. They know they’ve got covid tyranny in their own closets.


8 posted on 11/29/2022 1:00:07 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I took a picture of a large bridge construction project in Laos over the Mekong River. It was a China Railway bridge and it was a Chinese contractor.

I pisted the picture on Facebook and 30 minutes later it was removed.


9 posted on 11/29/2022 1:00:17 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Yo-Yo

Lol! Me as well. The riots are interesting but where is the porn?


10 posted on 11/29/2022 1:09:00 PM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: Yo-Yo

I’d guess that CNN’s researchers saw porn because that’s what they regularly search for. The AI has learned their preferences.


11 posted on 11/29/2022 1:15:17 PM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: euram

If the Chiners are doing this, it’s straight out of “1984.”

Orwell nailed it.


12 posted on 11/29/2022 2:53:25 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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I just did a Twitter search of China Covid protest and nothing like CNN claims came up. It was all about China protest Covid. This is fake news, as usual.


13 posted on 11/29/2022 4:01:38 PM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: euram

I wonder if we’d even know about these protests and lockdowns if it weren’t for Twitter being seemingly liberated.

I know we’d get news from various other sources, but it’s kind of strange that China is being exposed on a world-wide, mainstream media outlet. Not many people know about what’s going on there.


14 posted on 11/29/2022 4:53:42 PM PST by edh
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