Twitter flooded with Chinese spam, obscuring protest news

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Twitter flooded with Chinese spam, obscuring COVID policy protest news
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Twitter flooded with Chinese spam, obscuring COVID policy protest news

Users who search for major Chinese cities see spam from accounts that appear to be bots

There has been a noticeable increase in spam and suggestive ads on Twitter over the past three days in what seems to be an effort to lessen the flow of news about demonstrations against the Chinese...

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