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Twitter searches for China COVID-19 protests bombarded by spam, porn
2 years ago

Twitter searches for China COVID-19 protests bombarded by spam, porn

Firstpost  

For the past few days, searches in Chinese for major protest hotspots, including Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Guangzhou, show a nonstop stream of solicitations, images of scantily clad women in suggestive poses and seemingly random word and sentence fragments Beijing: In what appears to be an attempt by the Chinese government or its allies to wipe out images of the …

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Great Wall of Porn: How China is using sex bots to quell the COVID protests on social media
2 years ago

Great Wall of Porn: How China is using sex bots to quell the COVID protests on social media

Firstpost  

A search for the names of the Chinese cities where mass, unprecedented protests are taking place over the strict zero-COVID policy saw users being flooded with lewd posts. In his long thread of messages, he added, “Sadly if a Chinese person decides to come to Twitter to find out what happened in China last night, these nsfw posts shared by …

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China deploys 'bot police' to curb dissent online following nationwide protests
2 years ago

China deploys 'bot police' to curb dissent online following nationwide protests

India Today  

Chinese netizens and cyberspace officials are intertwined in their surveillance dragnet to control the narrative around the widespread protests against the “zero Covid” policy by the government. While anti-government posts are being censored on popular Chinese social media platforms, even independent platforms outside China such as Twitter are being manipulated with paid After the deadly fire incident on Thursday, Chinese …

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Twitter’s anti-propaganda team grapples with Chinese spam accounts on lockdown protests
2 years ago

Twitter’s anti-propaganda team grapples with Chinese spam accounts on lockdown protests

The Hindu  

China is witnessing anti-lockdown protests as the country’s zero-COVID policy is making its citizens speak out against the draconian measures. As protests spread across cities, China’s state-backed accounts are reportedly spamming hashtags on Twitter, according to a report by Washington Post. https://t.co/OdwqL8qne5 — Joseph Menn November 28, 2022 “Outgunned Twitter staff” are trying to fight back the stream of spam …

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India accounts for over 25% of videos removed by YouTube in June quarter
2 years, 3 months ago

India accounts for over 25% of videos removed by YouTube in June quarter

Live Mint  

India accounted for the highest number of videos removed by YouTube for violating community guidelines in the quarter ending June, shows YouTube’s Community Guidelines Enforcement report for Q2 2022, released September 8. YouTube removed 1.3 million videos in India during the quarter, followed by 445,148 in the US, 427,748 in Indonesia, 222,826 in Brazil, and 192,382 in Russia. In total, …

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COVID-19 volunteers are being subjected to spam, scam and scum; here’s a Doosra option
3 years, 7 months ago

COVID-19 volunteers are being subjected to spam, scam and scum; here’s a Doosra option

Firstpost  

Here’s a safe and peaceful way to volunteer and share your number without getting spammed or harassed. An online service called Doosra lets you generate a secondary mobile number. In a situation where you have to call someone but you don’t want to use your primary number for it, Doosra offers a limit of 100 minutes, wherein it routes calls …

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Spam calls are hindering efforts to contact trace and track Covid-19
4 years, 2 months ago

Spam calls are hindering efforts to contact trace and track Covid-19

CNN  

CNN — Nine months into a pandemic that has killed 210,000 people in the United States, health officials are imploring residents to answer their phones. “If contact tracers do not hear back, a text message will be sent with a home visit time and date, and visits may be conducted without confirmation,” the health officials said. About 60% of contact …

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