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The Twitter App loads on an iPhone in this illustration photograph taken in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 22, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake
The announcements from the $32 billion company led by Jack Dorsey included samples of tweets comparing demonstrators in Hong Kong to ISIS fighters and cockroaches, and alleging that they are backed by foreign agents. In addition to the 936 active accounts closed by Twitter, it purged a “spammy network” of around 200,000 dormant ones. Facebook, for its part, shut down multiple inauthentic pages, groups and accounts for the same reason.
Big money is at stake. Facebook, for example, generated about $5 billion of revenue from Chinese advertisers last year, or about 10% of its total, according to an estimate by Pivotal Research analyst Brian Weiser. YouTube hosts a channel for China Central Television. The China Daily designed an entire pull-out section to look like news, and paid to place it inside the Washington Post.
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