X’s product head says the company is ‘aware and working on it.’
An executive at X, formerly Twitter, is accusing the Chinese government of spamming porn to sabotage Chinese-language searches on the platform and suppress results about political unrest.
Nikita Bier, the product head for X, made the accusation after a user complained that Chinese-language searches on the platform are broken. “It’s filled with spam and illicit ads, making it impossible to find useful info,” the user wrote.
Bier tweeted back: “The Chinese government floods X search results with porn whenever there is political unrest—to prevent their citizens from finding out real-time information. This has been a difficult problem to solve, but we are aware and working on it.
