Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, claims that porn spam floods the platform during China unrest to hide real-time news.
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, blamed the Chinese government for the flood in a tweet social media Platforms with pornographic spam during times of political unrest. He shared the post in response to users complaining that “Chinese search on X is broken”.
Nikita Bier (R) serves as head of product at Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter). (screengrab(x))”The Chinese government floods X search results with porn whenever there is political unrest – to prevent their citizens from finding real-time information. This was a difficult problem to solve but we are aware and working on it,” wrote Nikita Beer.
Also Read: Top Elon Musk aide says fried chicken hurt his throat, internet says ‘fly to India’ for endoscopyIn response to an X user’s query, he shared the post, “Chinese search on X is broken. It’s full of spam and illegal ads, making it impossible to find useful information. Also, when using the ‘from:’ filter to search for my own posts, many are missing from the results from the last 48 hours. Due to the increase in searches by Chinese-speaking users, current users are having trouble searching. Spam-filled result status and recent tweets are detrimental to user retention. X users Elon Musk and Nikita Bear tagged in the post.
How was the social media response?While some supported Beer, others demanded evidence behind his comments. One person wrote, “I want to see proof! For research purposes.” Another added, “Organizing millions of accounts to pollute search results is not governance; it’s burning and burying scholars’ books in the digital age.””
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Trisha Sengupta is a journalist at Hindustan Times, specializing in creating engaging narratives on human interest, trending topics, science, viral news and social media trends.
