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Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter (restofworld.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think anyone liked it. More like tolerated it because of a combination of network effects and it being less shitty than Facebook.

At least, that's why I was on Twitter. People I wanted to follow were there.