{"id":39438,"date":"2021-12-03T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/03\/xinjiang-twitter-closes-thousands-of-china-state-linked-accounts-spreading-propaganda"},"modified":"2021-12-03T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:16:35","slug":"xinjiang-twitter-closes-thousands-of-china-state-linked-accounts-spreading-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39438","title":{"rendered":"Xinjiang: Twitter closes thousands of China state-linked accounts spreading propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Content was often \u2018embarrassingly\u2019 produced and pumped out via repurposed accounts, analysts say<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has shut down thousands of state-linked accounts in China that seek to counter evidence of human rights abuses in Xinjiang, as part of what experts called an \u201cembarrassingly\u201d produced propaganda operation.<\/p>\n<p>The operations used photos and images, shell and potentially automated accounts, and fake Uyghur profiles, to disseminate state propaganda and fake testimonials about their happy lives in the region, seeking to dispel evidence of a years-long campaign of oppression, with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/22\/uk-mps-declare-china-is-committing-genocide-against-uyghurs-in-xinjiang\"> mass internments, re-education programs<\/a>, and allegations of forced labour and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/12\/chinese-uyghur-policy-causes-unprecedented-fall-in-xinjiang-birthrates\">sterilisation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/03\/xinjiang-twitter-closes-thousands-of-china-state-linked-accounts-spreading-propaganda\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content was often \u2018embarrassingly\u2019 produced and pumped out via repurposed accounts, analysts sayTwitter has shut down thousands of state-linked accounts in China that seek to counter evidence of human rights abuses in Xinjiang, as part of what experts &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,58,350,2052,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-technology","category-twitter","category-uyghurs","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39439,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39438\/revisions\/39439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}