Facebook, Twitter accuse China of running disinformation campaign against Hong Kong protesters

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Twitter has suspended nearly 1,000 accounts from within China that it found to be deliberately sowing political discord in Hong Kong, including undermining the protest movement on the ground.

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have suspended numerous accounts that they say are tied to a Chinese disinformation campaign against pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.it suspended 936 accounts likely related to the activity. The company said the disinformation campaign was designed to "sow political discord in Hong Kong, including undermining the legitimacy and political protest movement on the ground.

The move comes after social media site Pinboard warned days earlier that China was using Twitter to distribute posts from state media discrediting the protests. WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 5: Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey are sworn-in for a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing concerning foreign influence operations' use of social media platforms, on Capitol Hill, September 5, 2018 in Washington, DC.The company didn't call out any specific news outlets in the post, but said it was including any entities that are "either financially or editorially controlled by the state.

"We're taking down these Pages, Groups and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they posted," Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, said in the post. "As with all of these takedowns, the people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts to misrepresent themselves, and that was the basis for our action."

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Big Tech an arm of the US War State.... Technocracy Censorship Hypocrisy

Why is marcorubio and co still up ? hypocrisy

Twitter protects American investments in the protest.

Bullshit. Twitter is trying to silence the protesters in Hong Kong...pretty disturbing 😐

igeldard That’s called corporate censorship

Here is a clip of Xi after the payoff to Twitter. CCP will be the sole superpower soon. Especially when a left wing lawn chair becomes president.

when china blocked twitter, chinese use vpn to access the twitter, they voiced their opinions, telling the truth, however, this is not in the interest of America, so twitter shut them up. 😂 hypocrisy!

can they also suspend all the Russian bot accounts promoting the ridiculous q theory

它(中共)所做的恶,都会让世人 一夜之间,让世人知道。那么所有的人知道了真相以后。 都会经历一次生与死的,炼狱一般的~这样的煎熬。

Are they doing elsewhere? Maybe ‘discord’ is acceptable in some cultures (are you reading this Twitter?).

You mean “censorship “!

FunInMia There's probably ten times more Russian bots & troll farms planting dissension here in America!

Should only show western media! Forbid show China voice! Haha

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God bless all them beautiful people trying to live a normal life without the enemy trying to take everything they got!!🇺🇸

Is this really news?

cnn msnbc do the exact same thing...

twitter is a dog of money

TheShaneHodge How about ANTIFA?

That's what you called Free speech. Ha ha ha ha.

China manipulates, Russia manipulates, just US is innocent

Twitter is cool😊✌🇺🇸

tweeter is a fake media platform,lots of fake accounts doing misinformation war and stoking violence on it against China,should be held accountable,it reversed white as black,those accounts are from patriotic ordinary Chinese like me,how absurd and outrageous!😡

Its no surprise to many, China cannot be trusted.

Does Twitter have a similar investigation into the organization of demonstrations in Hong Kong?

In other words, Twitter and Facebook gave in to the pressure from Dictator Xi and are helping in shutting down freedom of expression.

Meddling

Ummmmmm, Communism!

Where is the free speech ?

Google, YouTube should do something!

Twitter is still ignoring account that are undermining President Trump and his campaign!

I tip my hat to Twitter.

So in order to protect free speech they ban free speech?

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