China Paid Twitter To Publish Propaganda Against Hong Kong Protesters

People on Twitter spotted sponsored posts from Chinese state media criticizing the ongoing Hong Kong protests.

The Chinese government has been running a social media propaganda campaign to try and weaken the Hong Kong protests.

People in Hong Kong have been protesting the Chinese government for the eleventh consecutive weekend. Organizers say as many as 1.7 million people joined a peaceful rally last Sunday.

Every day I go out and see stuff with my own eyes, and then I go to report it on Twitter and see promoted tweets saying the opposite of what I saw. Twitter is taking money from Chinese propaganda outfits and running these promoted tweets against the top Hong Kong protest hashtags pic.twitter.com/6Wb0Km6GOb

— Pinboard (@Pinboard) August 17, 2019

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Twitter has been distributing sponsored posts from Chinese state media criticizing the Hong Kong protests, as spotted by the account of Pinboard, a social-media bookmarking site run by the entrepreneur and developer Maciej Ceglowski.

The posts were from China’s state-run Xinhua news agency. “Two months on, the escalating violence in Hong Kong has taken a heavy toll on the social order,” one tweet reads, adding that “all walks of life in Hong Kong called for a brake to be put on the blatant violence and for order to be restored.” More

Here’s the question: a bunch of young people in Hong Kong are standing up to their government, at terrific personal risk, to fight for basic human rights. Will a bunch of Twitter employees, at far less risk, stand up to their CEO and refuse to be used as a weapon against them?

— Pinboard (@Pinboard) August 17, 2019

In June, Twitter was forced to apologized after it suspended hundreds of accounts that were critical of the Chinese government just days before the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

@jack do you really want to receive that kind of dirty money?

— Wasserflüssigkeit (@Kapillariyeet) August 18, 2019

Twitter is pro communist. We use them but eventually that will go down. Twitter favors communism over freedom and pro Red China over HK. Twiiter will all fail in the end as all communist do.

— Climate Farce (@Climate_Farce) August 19, 2019