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Twitter slammed for China-backed ads against HK protesters
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IANS | 19 Aug, 2019
Users on the social bookmarking
website Pinboard have slammed China-backed advertisements being run on
Twitter, attacking Hong Kong protesters.
The ads try to portray the protests as "escalating violence" and call for "order to be restored," Engadget reported on Monday.
"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,"
Pinboard tweeted.
Since June, Hong Kong has been rocked by a wave
of protests because of the extradition bill, which would have enabled
fugitives to be extradited from Hong Kong to mainland China.
Though
the bill has been declared "dead" by the city's top leader Carrie Lam,
the civil campaign against it has since morphed into a broader movement
seeking to reverse a general decline in freedom and investigate police
brutality.
A mass rally in Hong Kong on Sunday attracted tens of
thousands of people as the crisis entered the 11th consecutive weekend
of anti-government protests.
The "ads have highlighted alleged
supporters of the Chinese 'motherland' and have pointed out Hong Kong's
economic troubles from earlier in the year," the report said.
Twitter was yet to issue a statement.
The
Chinese government has been clamping down on those who voice dissent on
Twitter, even though the service is blocked beyond Hong Kong.
The
recent wave of anti-government protests, sparked by a controversial
extradition bill, has prompted widespread criticism of the police for
their alleged brutality against protesters.
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