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The U.S. Response to COVID-19ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive as soon as they’re published.Kalen Keegan, a college student at the University of Nebraska Omaha, immediately noticed when her Twitter account unleashed a torrent of posts in Chinese. “My other account got hacked👍🏽,” the soccer player posted on a replacement account. The new author tweeting as @Kalenkayyy had strong views on geopolitics — all aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. It was obsessed with the protests in Hong Kong, offered uncritical praise of the Hong Kong...…The U.S. Response to COVID-19ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive as soon as they’re published.Kalen Keegan, a college student at the University of Nebraska Omaha, immediately noticed when her Twitter account unleashed a torrent of posts in Chinese. “My other account got hacked👍🏽,” the soccer player posted on a replacement account. The new author tweeting as @Kalenkayyy had strong views on geopolitics — all aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. It was obsessed with the protests in Hong Kong, offered uncritical praise of the Hong Kong...WW…
For One Week, Clubhouse Let Chinese Internet Users Past the Great Firewall
AdvertisementAdvertisementThis article is part of the , a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech.If you entered the virtual “corridor” of the invite-only and iOS-only app Clubhouse over the weekend, you would see discussion rooms titled, in Chinese, “young people on both sides of the strait free-style chat,” “the Silicon Valley investor living room,” “are there internment camps in Xinjiang?” and “is now the best time to go back to...…AdvertisementAdvertisementThis article is part of the , a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech.If you entered the virtual “corridor” of the invite-only and iOS-only app Clubhouse over the weekend, you would see discussion rooms titled, in Chinese, “young people on both sides of the strait free-style chat,” “the Silicon Valley investor living room,” “are there internment camps in Xinjiang?” and “is now the best time to go back to...WW…
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