Chinese bots have swamped Twitter with explicit content to distract from news about the ongoing protests against the country's harsh Covid lockdown measures from spreading.
Users searching for any of the major cities affected by this weekend's demonstrations will "mostly see ads for escorts/porn/gambling, drowning out legitimate search results", according to China data analyst account, AirMovingDevice.
Sharing a series of charts, the account said: “Data analysis in this thread suggests that there has been a significant uptick in these spam tweets.”
