Twitter Takes Down Accounts of China Dissidents Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/business/twitter-china-tiananmen.html https:/

Twitter Takes Down Accounts of China Dissidents Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/business/twitter-china-tiananmen.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/business/twitter-china-ti... """ In a statement, Twitter said that as a part of its routine efforts to stop spam and inauthentic behavior, it had inadvertently gone after a number of legitimate Chinese-language accounts. “These accounts were not mass reported by the Chinese authorities — this was routine action on our part,” the company said in a statement on Twitter. “Sometimes our routine actions catch false positives or we make errors. We apologize.” Online, many users said they did not believe Twitter’s statement told the whole story. """