🇨🇳 Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests

Plus: A Mural Celebrated Migrant Workers. When the World Cup Began, It Was Gone. Whoops, I Deleted My Life. And more…

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Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests. SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter's radically reduced anti-propaganda team grappled on Sunday with a flood of nuisance content in China that researchers said was aimed at reducing the flow of news about stunning widespread protests against coronavirus… (Joseph Menn / Washington Post)

Joseph Menn @josephmenn

Just wrote about Chinese accounts spamming city names in a suspected attempt to keep citizens from learning about the historic protests. An outgunned Twitter staff fought back.

washingtonpost.comTwitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protestsLinks to adult content overwhelmed other posts from Chinese cities where rallies escalated.

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A Mural Celebrated Migrant Workers. When the World Cup Began, It Was Gone. LUSAIL, Qatar — The giant mural with thousands of faces was certainly an arresting feature for visitors of Qatar's showpiece stadium in the months leading to the World Cup. When the buses stopped and the visiting journalists stepped out… (Tariq Panja / The New York Times)

tariq panja @tariqpanja

Qatar World Cup organizers promoted and celebrated a vast mural at the $1bn Lusail stadium created to highlight the work of thousands of migrant workers that worked to build it. Then the World Cup started and it vanished. via @nytimes

nytimes.comA Stadium Mural Celebrated Migrant Workers. When the World Cup Began, It Was Gone.A mosaic of photographs once decorated Qatar’s showpiece stadium in Lusail. Now a V.I.P. entrance sits beside the spot.

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Whoops, I Deleted My Life. When the ominous warnings started hitting my inbox a few months ago, I tried to ignore them. The emails contained none of the humor or playfulness of the early Gmail ethos. Instead, they were terse and vaguely threatening, seeming to channel the… (Thomas Chatterton Williams / The Atlantic)

Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill

Brief notes on accidentally deleting my entire 20-year-old Gmail inbox:

theatlantic.comWhoops, I Deleted My LifeA sense of panic set in when I realized I’d erased the entirety of my inbox.

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WhatsApp rolls out a feature that makes it easier to message yourself. WhatsApp has started rolling out a feature to let you chat with yourself. Sending messages to your own account can be a way to keep a piece of information easily accessible, right next to your other WhatsApp conversations. Called ‘Message… (Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch)

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WhatsApp rolls out a feature that makes it easier to message yourself tcrn.ch/3VbFOeR by @JagmeetS13

tcrn.chWhatsApp rolls out a feature that makes it easier to message yourselfWhatsApp has started rolling out a feature called ‘Message Yourself’ to let you chat with yourself and send messages to your own account.

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Twitter data leak exposes over 5.4 million accounts. Earlier this year, Twitter confirmed that the private user data for 5.4 million users was stolen due to an API vulnerability, but the company said it had 'no evidence' that it was exploited. Now, all of those accounts have been exposed on a hacker… (Steve Dent / Engadget)

Engadget @engadget

Twitter data leak exposes over 5.4 million accounts engt.co/3gHJ4Qk

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