US Sponsored “Color Revolution” Struggles in Hong Kong. UPDATE: US Target Xinjiang

[Savvir]

1. You seem convinced the majority of the citizenry aren't satisfied with the government.

2. Source ?

1. Quote the statement you are referring to.

2. Inside the Hong Kong protesters’ anarchic struggle against China

 

[Cynic]

1. Quote the statement you are referring to.

2. Inside the Hong Kong protesters’ anarchic struggle against China

There is a generational gap between those who lived as second class citizens under british rule
and those born after the handover.

Eitherway HK is returning to China in 2047

 

[Savvir]

There is a generational gap between those who lived as second class citizens under british rule
and those born after the handover.

Eitherway HK is returning to China in 2047

Give more info on the generational gap and how it relates to individual freedoms and the Hong Kong protests

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Saying that the Patriot act can and could be used in the future to prevent dissent is not the same as saying china already is using it's power to actively and in instances violently control dissent.

China is a glimpse of where America could be headed. And you guys seem to think there is no problem with where China is at. I'm afraid of how you'll justify the slippery slope America is on.

The "Patriot Act" was never about terrorism, that's why only %0.8 percent of cases involved terrorism.

It's always been about population control, just like the "War on Drugs", just like "Operation Mockingbird" and everything else this government has done.

 

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Twitter Bans Chinese Accounts Criticizing Hong Kong Protests

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  Cartoon depicting censorship | Photo: Flickr

Published 20 August 2019




In its purge of Iranian accounts, Twitter suspended independent journalists and activists who don't work for but who support their government. Twitter did the same in Venezuela several times. Its purge today of Chinese accounts will likely do the same.”

Twitter announced on Monday that they had banned a number of Chinese media outlets from running adverts on the site, following their criticism of the opposition protests in Hong Kong. The platform has also deleted almost 1000 individual user accounts who they claim are ‘Chinese bots’. Twitter is working with CIA linked NGO ‘Freedom House’, among others, to determine which accounts are to face bans.

In an official statement, Twitter announced they will be closing 936 accounts based in the Chinese mainland, accusing said accounts of “attempting to sow political discord in Hong Kong, including undermining the legitimacy and political positions of the protest movement on the ground.”

Then in a separate statement, also posted Monday, Twitter announced that it would ban ‘state media’ from advertising and paying for promoted tweets.

“Going forward, we will not accept advertising from state-controlled news media entities. Any affected accounts will be free to continue to use Twitter to engage in public conversation, just not our advertising products.”

“Going forward, we will not accept advertising from state-controlled news media entities. Any affected accounts will be free to continue to use Twitter to engage in public conversation, just not our advertising products.”

Though the second statement does not mention China, it follows a Buzzfeed‘investigation’ that said 5 Chinese state media outlets have paid for promoted tweets. Bizarrely, Twitter's statement said that the ban will not affect “taxpayer-funded entities”, Twitter will be deciding what constitutes ‘state media’ by contracting, among others, the highly partisan US organization ‘Freedom House’, an NGO linked to the CIA.

China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang defended the right of Chinese outlets to post and to promote tweets, like any other news organizations around the world. He said, “What is happening in Hong Kong, and what the truth is, people will naturally have their own judgment. Why is it that China’s official media’s presentation is surely negative or wrong?”

Twitter has not so far accused Chinese accounts of disseminating false news, this is in stark contrast to some large accounts supporting the Hong Kong protests which a recent AFP investigation found to be repeatedly sharing fake and old images purporting to show Chinese 'repression'. A large number of such posts were debunked, but nevertheless gained huge circulation within Hong Kong.

This is not the first time Twitter has been accused of censoring accounts critical of US foreign policy aims. Responding to Twitter’s statement, journalist Ben Norton pointed out that similar operations were carried out against Iranian and Venezuelan accounts, saying, “In its purge of Iranian accounts, Twitter suspended independent journalists and activists who don't work for but who support their government. Twitter did the same in Venezuela several times. Its purge today of Chinese accounts will likely do the same.”

The controversy follows months of protests in Hong Kong, in which opposition demonstrators have expressed anger at local authorities who they believe to be too close to Beijing. Despite being part of China, the area has a degree of autonomy from the mainland, and some do not identify with Beijing, with many protesters waving flags of the U.K. and the U.S., rather than the red flag of Hong Kong. Some leaders of the movement have also held meetings with U.S. diplomats and received large grants from the ‘National Endowment of Democracy’, another CIA linked organization.

Despite the protests receiving frequent coverage in Western media, a poll publishedSunday showed a large majority of Hong Kong residents are against any split from China, a demand that is common among demonstrators.

Twitter Bans Chinese Accounts Criticizing Hong Kong Protests

 

[Savvir]

Twitter Bans Chinese Accounts Criticizing Hong Kong Protests

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  Cartoon depicting censorship | Photo: Flickr

Published 20 August 2019




In its purge of Iranian accounts, Twitter suspended independent journalists and activists who don't work for but who support their government. Twitter did the same in Venezuela several times. Its purge today of Chinese accounts will likely do the same.”



Twitter Bans Chinese Accounts Criticizing Hong Kong Protests

i saw the twitter bot posts...
they needed to be banned...
government agents running bot campaigns violates the Twitter's TOS

and Tele sur is a government run news agency.... you need to check your sources before you post propoganda


Slate’s Use of Your Data

Social media companies Twitter and Facebook announced this week they had taken action against suspected fake Chinese accounts that were attempting to disrupt the months-long protests in Hong Kong. On Monday, Twitter said it had suspended more than 200,000 accounts the company believes are part of the Chinese government’s influence campaign attempting to derail the popular pro-democracy protests that have brought hundreds of thousands into the streets. The fake accounts were pushing and amplifying narratives that praised the police crackdown on the protests, criticized the demonstrators, and accused vague Western forces of fomenting the unrest.

“Overall, these accounts were deliberately and specifically attempting to sow political discord in Hong Kong, including undermining the legitimacy and political positions of the protest movement on the ground,” Twitter said in a blog post. “Based on our intensive investigations, we have reliable evidence to support that this is a coordinated state-backed operation.” Twitter also announced it was banning ads on the site from state-backed media companies that, such as was the case with the state-controlled Russian RT media network, can serve the same propaganda-pushing purposes as bots.


“After being notified by Twitter and conducting its own investigation, Facebook said Monday that it has also removed seven pages, three groups and five accounts, including some portraying protesters as cockroaches and terrorists,” the Associated Press reports. “Facebook, which is more widely used in Hong Kong, does not release data on such state-backed influence operations. Neither does it ban ads from state-owned media companies.” For a sense of scale and potential influence, the market research firm eMarketer puts the number of Twitter users in Hong Kong at approximately 448,000 people, while there are 4.7 million Facebook users that log on each month. From the AP:

Twitter traced the Hong Kong campaign to two fake Chinese and English Twitter accounts that pretended to be news organizations based in Hong Kong, where pro-democracy demonstrators have taken to the streets since early June calling for full democracy and an inquiry into what they say is police violence against protesters. Though Twitter is banned in China, it is available in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous region. The Chinese language account, @HKpoliticalnew, and the English account, @ctcc507, pushed tweets depicting protesters as violent criminals in a campaign aimed at influencing public opinion around the world. One of those accounts was tied to a suspended Facebook account that went by the same moniker: HKpoliticalnew.

“The new takedowns by Facebook and Twitter reflect the extent to which disinformation has become a global scourge, far surpassing the once-secret efforts of Russian agents to stoke social unrest in the United States during the 2016 presidential election,” the Washington Post notes. “Researchers recently have pointed to similar campaigns linked to Saudi Arabia, Israel, China, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela, efforts aimed at shaping discussions on social media beyond their borders.”

 

[loyola llothta]

i saw the twitter bot posts...
they needed to be banned...
government agents running bot campaigns violates the Twitter's TOS

and Tele sur is a government run news agency.... you need to check your sources before you post propoganda


Slate’s Use of Your Data

Social media companies Twitter and Facebook announced this week they had taken action against suspected fake Chinese accounts that were attempting to disrupt the months-long protests in Hong Kong. On Monday, Twitter said it had suspended more than 200,000 accounts the company believes are part of the Chinese government’s influence campaign attempting to derail the popular pro-democracy protests that have brought hundreds of thousands into the streets. The fake accounts were pushing and amplifying narratives that praised the police crackdown on the protests, criticized the demonstrators, and accused vague Western forces of fomenting the unrest.

“Overall, these accounts were deliberately and specifically attempting to sow political discord in Hong Kong, including undermining the legitimacy and political positions of the protest movement on the ground,” Twitter said in a blog post. “Based on our intensive investigations, we have reliable evidence to support that this is a coordinated state-backed operation.” Twitter also announced it was banning ads on the site from state-backed media companies that, such as was the case with the state-controlled Russian RT media network, can serve the same propaganda-pushing purposes as bots.


“After being notified by Twitter and conducting its own investigation, Facebook said Monday that it has also removed seven pages, three groups and five accounts, including some portraying protesters as cockroaches and terrorists,” the Associated Press reports. “Facebook, which is more widely used in Hong Kong, does not release data on such state-backed influence operations. Neither does it ban ads from state-owned media companies.” For a sense of scale and potential influence, the market research firm eMarketer puts the number of Twitter users in Hong Kong at approximately 448,000 people, while there are 4.7 million Facebook users that log on each month. From the AP:

Twitter traced the Hong Kong campaign to two fake Chinese and English Twitter accounts that pretended to be news organizations based in Hong Kong, where pro-democracy demonstrators have taken to the streets since early June calling for full democracy and an inquiry into what they say is police violence against protesters. Though Twitter is banned in China, it is available in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous region. The Chinese language account, @HKpoliticalnew, and the English account, @ctcc507, pushed tweets depicting protesters as violent criminals in a campaign aimed at influencing public opinion around the world. One of those accounts was tied to a suspended Facebook account that went by the same moniker: HKpoliticalnew.

“The new takedowns by Facebook and Twitter reflect the extent to which disinformation has become a global scourge, far surpassing the once-secret efforts of Russian agents to stoke social unrest in the United States during the 2016 presidential election,” the Washington Post notes. “Researchers recently have pointed to similar campaigns linked to Saudi Arabia, Israel, China, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela, efforts aimed at shaping discussions on social media beyond their borders.”

I dont take any idiots like you who linking America long problem of racial Injustice and social unrest to Russian agencies

How about check your sources. You havent provide any evidence that back anything you're saying

 

[Savvir]

I dont take any idiots like you who linking America long problem of racial Injustice and social unrest to Russian agencies

How about check your sources. You havent provide any evidence that back anything you're saying

1. your grammar sounds like a foreigner

2. Im black... social unrest and injustice is my history.... why the fukk would i try to say its due to a russian narrative from the last couple years?

you gotta be a cacanese agent or you just a lost breh who is barking up the wrong tree... i work in infosec...
i know whats goin on.... on both sides

 

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[Xcoyote]

Manufacturing consent.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Amazing how "propaganda" is always anti-American corporate interests

 

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