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Chinese bots swamp Twitter with porn to hide news of mass protests
NY Post ^ | November 28, 2022 | By Lee Brown

Posted on 11/28/2022 6:02:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Chinese bots are swamping Twitter with sexually explicit posts about porn and escorts in an apparent bid to stop the spread of news about the massive protests against lockdowns and President Xi Jinping.

Searches for major Chinese cities that have seen mass protests will “mostly see ads for escorts/porn/gambling, drowning out legitimate search results,” said Air-Moving Device, sharing a series of charts.

“Data analysis in this thread suggests that there has been a significant uptick in these spam tweets,” the outlet said, sharing data retweeted by Stanford Internet Observatory Director Alex Stamos.

The “vast majority” — more than 95% — appear to be spam accounts that “tweet at a high, steady rate throughout the day, suggesting automation,” the analysis said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bots; ccp; china; elonmusk; musk; truthsocial; twitter
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1 posted on 11/28/2022 6:02:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

and yet I was able to see plenty of videos and images of the protests.


2 posted on 11/28/2022 6:03:22 AM PST by The Louiswu (- .-. ..- -- .--. / ..--- ----- ..--- ....-)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So it is just like Breitbart.


3 posted on 11/28/2022 6:03:28 AM PST by bray (The Republic of Texas is available on Barnes and Noble )
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To: The Louiswu
yet I was able to see plenty of videos and images of the protests.

True. Can you imagine how much protest material is trying to get through?

4 posted on 11/28/2022 6:06:44 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh come on. This is the NWO model. Way overreacting. 🤣


5 posted on 11/28/2022 6:08:33 AM PST by GenX4Real
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Did they post Hunter’s laptop?…


6 posted on 11/28/2022 6:11:18 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sort of like here re: Ukraine without the pr0n.

I'd be careful though. Some of the media I've seen are trying to spin the bot issue as Musk's takeover of Twitter. Twitter had that priblem before Musk, imho.

7 posted on 11/28/2022 6:16:19 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You can bet our CIA and DOJ and military are aiding China in this task.


8 posted on 11/28/2022 6:23:53 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Would that work? Or would it draw more people in?


9 posted on 11/28/2022 6:27:03 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: JonPreston

I just did a Twitter search for “China Protests.” I saw plenty of good video reports on the protests and didn’t see any porn. Perhaps Twitter’s porn-removal algorithms finally kicked in.


10 posted on 11/28/2022 6:36:47 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"B-b-but this never would have happened had that evil man Elon Musk hadn't fired 90% of the loyal, hard working Twitter staff!"


11 posted on 11/28/2022 6:40:55 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: RoosterRedux; JonPreston

It may be that the search algorithms are based on habits of the user. If you usually look up porn on the internet, then the Twitter search results for “China” try to give you your results. But if avoid porn on the net, then maybe you get cleaner search results.


12 posted on 11/28/2022 6:47:52 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I don’t get porn either, and I don’t view it.


13 posted on 11/28/2022 6:50:47 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: Yo-Yo
Musk seems to be popping red pills every day.

Free Speech

Racist frog

Guns and George Washington

https://twitter.com/elonmusk

14 posted on 11/28/2022 6:50:50 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: Pollard
I have no idea what sort of paperweight that 'thing' is on his dresser, but it is not a revolver firearm.


15 posted on 11/28/2022 6:54:06 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Yo-Yo

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=.357+Diamond+Back+Deus+Ex&ia=web

Seems to be from a game called Human Revolution - sounds right up his ally

Human Revolution takes place in the year 2027, 25 years prior to the original Deus Ex. The Deus Ex series is set in a cyberpunk future rife with secret organizations and conspiracies: among these forces is the Illuminati.[7] Leading up to Human Revolution, there have been marked improvements in human society, with people actively fighting global warming, finding cures for various diseases, and improving green energy. Alongside this, global megacorporations have come to eclipse government authority in power and influence, while private military forces dwarf the sanctioned armies of First World countries. Advances in biotechnology and cybernetics have led to the development of "augmentations", advanced artificial organs capable of significantly improving and enhancing the human body's performance. The development of augmentation technology has triggered a new social divide: those with augmentations become the world's new upper-class citizenry and are touted as the future of humanity, while normal humans form the majority of the lower-class population.[2][8] Augmentations also require taking Neuropozyne, a limited and expensive immunosuppressive drug that stops the body from rejecting the technology.[9] By the events of Human Revolution, society is being divided between "augs", humans who have accepted augmentation technology, and ordinary humans who are either morally opposed to it, too poor to afford it, or whose bodies actively reject it. The tensions between the two factions begin generating open conflict.[2][8]

16 posted on 11/28/2022 7:04:59 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: Pollard
Elon, Elon, Elon...

Caffeine-Free Diet Coke: why bother?

17 posted on 11/28/2022 7:09:30 AM PST by AF_Blue (My decision-making skills closely resemble those of a squirrel when crossing a road)
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To: AF_Blue

Patience please. The reason will be revealed


18 posted on 11/28/2022 7:10:12 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: Yo-Yo

I wouldn’t want to be on the “receiving” end of that thing.


20 posted on 11/28/2022 7:25:38 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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