After being removed or banned from YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, pro-Chinese propaganda is instead being uploaded to the world’s largest porn site, owned by MindGeek, a company founded in Montreal. (Quartz)
After being removed or banned from YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, pro-Chinese propaganda is instead being uploaded to the world’s largest porn site, owned by MindGeek, a company founded in Montreal. (Quartz)
After being removed or banned from YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, pro-Chinese propaganda is instead being uploaded to the world’s largest porn site, owned by MindGeek, a company founded in Montreal. (Quartz)
Talking point: China has been running a campaign against the Hong Kong protests since they began in June, depicting those protesting for democracy and civil liberties as rogue and violent separatists. Twitter and Facebook have collectively suspended hundreds of accounts, and YouTube has shut down 210 channels that posted misleading videos about Hong Kong. Most of these were flagged to the platforms by observers, raising questions about how internet companies are dealing with misinformation. As the unrest has continued, anti-protest videos have begun surfacing on the adult content network, which claimed to have 33.5 billion visits in 2018, though the site is blocked in China. The report comes as public dissent in the region has become increasingly violent, with heightened clashes between police and protestors.
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