Twitter Helped Chinese Government Promote Disinformation on Repression of Uighurs
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/08/19/twitter-ads-china-uighurs
Twitter helped to promote Chinese government propaganda and disinformation about the country’s controversial internment camps in the Xinjiang region, a review of the company’s advertising records reveals. The social media company today announced a policy change that would bar such promotion following an inquiry from The Intercept and an earlier controversy over similar propaganda related to demonstrations in Hong Kong. In Xinjiang, a western province in China, the United Nations has (...)
