• Muad'DibberMA
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    3 days ago

    I feel like someone could write an essay for everything that’s going on here.

      • knfrmity
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        3 days ago

        AFAIK Twitter started flagging every .cn link as “Chinese state media” a few years ago already. Could be the same with .ru and .ir.

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          Apparently this is an old tweet, pre-Musk even.

          The China Project, Mar. 2022: Twitter mocked for new rule targeting Chinese state-affiliated media. Twitter thinks Peepee.poopoo.news.cn is an official Chinese government news source.

          The application of the label, however, is problematic due to its automatic nature: Users found out that any URL that ends with “.news.cn” can trigger the label, regardless of its validity or actual affiliations with state media.

          I don’t think that is problematic given that the Chinese state owns the “news.cn”. I see that some people said it had been applied to all “.cn” domains, but I don’t see evidence of it.

          In any event, Xitter later dropped this practice. What the state of it is today I couldn’t say and don’t really care because Xitter.