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World Service,20 Aug 2019,53 mins

Hong Kong protests: Twitter and Facebook remove Chinese accounts

Newsday

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Twitter and Facebook have taken steps to block what they described as a state-backed Chinese misinformation campaign. Twitter said it removed 936 accounts it said were being used to “sow political discord in Hong Kong”; we speak to a member of China's Uighur Muslim community who's written an open letter asking Beijing to free his father from what he's calling a concentration camp; and a young Somali poet tells us how her work is inspired by her life in the US.

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