Twitter, Facebook ban pro-Democracy accounts that criticize China


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Twitter and Facebook have banned over 100 pro-democracy accounts that criticized China, Russia and Iran. The social media companies allege that the pages and groups were pro-American and “used deceptive tactics” to promote Democratic and pro-Western narratives while exposing atrocities and genocide by Russia and China. That, according to a report released on Aug. 24. The joint report by the Stanford Internet Observatory and Graphika, a social media analytics firm, alleges that an “interconnected web of accounts” on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and five other social media platforms utilized “deceptive” strategies to back Western narratives in the Middle East and Central...