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Elon Musk Slashed Twitter’s Safety Team. Then a Chinese Spam Campaign Ran Rampant

Twitter’s scaled-down anti-propaganda team struggled to contain Chinese-language accounts tweeting adult content—spam suspected to be linked with China’s government in order to drown out news about protests over COVID-19 policies. “Looks like we might have the first major failure to stop gov interference in the Musk era,” said one cybersecurity expert.

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