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,” an analysis found. “Data analysis in this thread suggests that there has been a significant uptick in these spam tweets,” a news outlet said, sharing data retweeted by Stanford Internet Observatory.
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. Stanford University shared images of some of the dubious “escort ads,” which they said “make it more difficult for Chinese users to access information about the mass protests.” They wrote: “Sadly if a Chinese person decides to come to Twitter to find out what happened in China last night, these NSFW posts shared by bots are likely the first to show up in their search results.”
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