{"id":1753906,"date":"2022-11-28T13:19:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T18:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753906"},"modified":"2022-11-28T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T18:19:29","slug":"china-floods-twitter-with-porn-to-suppress-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-floods-twitter-with-porn-to-suppress-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"China Floods Twitter With Porn To Suppress Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-floods-twitter-with-porn-to-suppress-protests%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753906&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Chinese government bots are tweeting &#8220;sexually explicit posts about porn and escorts&#8221; to drown out news of protests against dictator Xi Jinping, the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/28\/chinese-swamp-twitter-with-porn-to-block-protest-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AirMovingDevice\/status\/1597034969293271040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to<\/a> the Twitter account @AirMovingDevice, which says it analyzes &#8220;China and the world in data and graphs,&#8221; a Chinese citizen who searches for Beijing or Shanghai will &#8220;mostly see ads for escorts\/porn\/gambling.&#8221; The &#8220;vast majority&#8221; of the posts appear to come from bots that &#8220;tweet at a high, steady rate throughout the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The porn-pushing comes as protests rock China. Across the country, demonstrators are calling for an end to the Chinese government&#8217;s zero-COVID policy, which has resulted in years of lockdowns. Chinese citizens were outraged over a Thursday fire at an apartment building in Urumqi during which residents and firefighters were reportedly &#8220;blocked by locked doors or other pandemic restrictions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Protesters are even demanding the resignation of dictator Xi, a call &#8220;almost unheard of in a country where Xi has a level of power unseen since Mao Zedong&#8217;s era,&#8221; the Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>In response, China has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/china-tightens-security-after-nationwide-protests-against-covid-lockdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cracked down<\/a> on protesters, with police stopping and searching people at protest sites. Shanghai police went so far as to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/report-chinese-authorities-assault-bbc-reporter-at-shanghai-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrest, beat, and kick<\/a>\u00a0a BBC journalist covering the protests.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford University researcher Mengyu Dong <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dong_mengyu\/status\/1596749168462401536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> that some of the porn accounts &#8220;have been dormant for years, only to become active \u2026 after protests broke out in China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chinese state media, however, have not mentioned the protests, which the Post says are &#8220;the biggest since Tiananmen Square in 1989.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese government bots are tweeting &#8220;sexually explicit posts about porn and escorts&#8221; to drown out news of protests against dictator Xi Jinping, the New York Post reported Monday.<br \/>\nThe post China Floods Twitter With Porn To Suppress Protests appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":1753909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}