Beijing is aggressively expanding its digital authoritarianism by flooding social media with pornography to hide internal turmoil, say experts, a strategy that threatens global internet liberty and sets a dangerous precedent for other regimes, they warn.
Nikita Bier, the head of product for X, said in a Jan. 30 post that the Chinese government floods X search results “with porn whenever there is political unrest” in a bid to block citizens from accessing live information.
