Twitter says it locked account of China’s U.S. embassy over Xinjiang-related tweet


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Twitter says it locked account of China’s U.S. embassy over Xinjiang-related tweet Reuters Reuters 21 January, 2021, 8:15 pm FILE PHOTO: A Twitter logo is seen outside the company headquarters in San Francisco, California, U.S., January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Stephen Lam SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Twitter has locked the account of China’s U.S. embassy for a tweet that defended China’s policies in the Xinjiang region, which the U.S. social media platform said violated the firm’s policy against “dehumanization”. The Chinese Embassy account, @ChineseEmbinUS, posted a tweet this month that said that Uighur women were no longer “baby making machines,” citing a study...