If you work at Twitter, I'm asking you on bended knee to make it stop. Don't be complicit in this.
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Xinhua, the agency buying these tweets, has literally referred to the Hong Kong protesters as 'cockroaches'. Today a 17 year old kid at a march insisted on holding his umbrella over my head for three miles because it was raining. I looked very carefully - no antennae, human eyes
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Please, if you're getting them too, post or describe your favorite paid Chinese propaganda tweet in this thread
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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?
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First thing I see on my Twitter feed this morning (even though
@thegrugq made an effort to get it off my front page) is more paid venom from Xinhuapic.twitter.com/MHXfBEEZS7
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I just came home from a completely peaceful march where possibly a million Hong Kong residents came out, with no police in sight, to call for basic democratic rights. What greets me is straight up lies from Xinhua about "bands of thugs", courtesy of Twitter advertising.pic.twitter.com/pUTsnqZ5oN
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It is time for Twitter users (and employees) to call for stopping violence, ending chaos, and restoring order on Twitter. Stop selling promoted tweets to Xinhua, who are running an orchestrated state-backed campaign to discredit and dehumanize the authentic voice of Hong Kong
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I am calling on Twitter to disclose: 1) How much money it took from Xinhua 2) How many ads it ran for them since the start of the Hong Kong protests in June and 3) How those ads were targeted
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I think there should be congressional hearings on the role of Twitter in advancing a coordinated Chinese disinformation campaign. We are approaching a U.S. election year and need to know what controls and internal safeguards Twitter has, beyond "ask the underfed half-time CEO"
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It appears Twitter will no longer be selling ads to Xinhua. Thanks to everyone who made this happen!
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Twitter had given itself 30 days to stop letting Xinhua run promoted tweets on its platform. The situation in Hong Kong is delicate and changing quickly; 30 days is four weekends of protest. Twitter should not wait, and suspend Xinhua's ad account immediately.
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30 days is plenty enough time to do damage. Total cop out from Twitter.
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