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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
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What China is doing is clear. If these peaceful, extremely self-disciplined protesters who enjoy the clear backing of the overwhelming majority of Hong Kongers can be discredited, it will be easier to crack down. What the fuck Twitter thinks it's doing is less clear.
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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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