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Aug 19, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Twitter helped to promote Chinese government propaganda & disinformation denying human rights violations in Xinjiang, where an estimated one million ethnic minority Uighurs have been held in internment camps. theintercept.com/2019/08/19/twi…
The company today announced a policy change that will bar such activity -- in the form of promoted tweets from state media orgs -- hours after an inquiry from The Intercept about Xinjiang & an earlier controversy over propaganda related to Hong Kong. blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/c…
Here's one of the Chinese govt propaganda tweets Twitter promoted to its users. Contains a video describing Xinjiang camps as "vocational education & training centers" & attacks European politicians & media, whose "hands are in a way soiled with blood"
Another promoted tweet included a video purportedly taken in Xinjiang, in which people are seen shopping & eating to a soundtrack of piano music. People there, the video declared, “now live a happy & peaceful life” b/c they work to fight extremism.
We found Twitter promoted 50+ tweets from the state run Global Times in the last couple months. Several of the Xinjiang tweets were promoted in July, after 22 countries condemned China's actions & called for an end to the mass detention of Uighurs. nytimes.com/2019/07/10/wor…

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