SHANGHAI – Twitter has locked the account of China’s U.S. embassy for atweet that defended China’s policies in the Xinjiang region, which the U.S.social media platform said violated the firm’s policy against“dehumanization”.
The Chinese Embassy account, @ChineseEmbinUS, posted a tweet this monththat said that Uighur women were no longer “baby making machines,” citing astudy reported by state-backed newspaper China Daily.
The tweet was removed by Twitter and replaced by a label stating that itwas no longer available. Although Twitter hides tweets that violate itspolicies, it requires account owners to manually delete such posts. TheChinese embassy’s account has not posted any new tweets since Jan. 9.
