#Twitter hit with wave of porn and spam obscuring tweets about #China protests

"One analysis highlighted by Stanford Internet Observatory’s Alex Stamos estimates that over 95 percent of tweets under the #Beijing search term are from spam accounts, with over 70 percent of the accounts only having started tweeting in such volumes recently. New spam tweets are appearing every few seconds from accounts that are tweeting thousands of times per day."

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/28/23481673/twitter-porn-spam-chinese-protests-obscuring-information

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Twitter hit with wave of porn and spam obscuring tweets about China protests

Search results for major Chinese cities have become filled with spam tweets about escort services, porn, and gambling that are obscuring content about a wave of protests that have gripped the country.

The Verge

@john The Chinese #wumao (50 cent army - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party ) always has been active on #twitter to some extent. But now as #ElonMusk has opened the floodgates, Chinese #bots and #wumao will soon overshadow any authentic information. With the low skillset of many #SocialMedia users to detect #FakeNews, #twitter is on the way to pose an existential threat to society.

More in-depth information about the #wumao here:

https://youtu.be/RfFwBWABsNk

50 Cent Party - Wikipedia