Social media and the world’s repressive regimes

Tech companies may not want to be at the center of global political battles, but increasingly it appears that they cannot avoid it.
On Monday, Twitter announced that it has removed 936 accounts and suspended 200,000 others used by the government of China to damage the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. The company said it will not tolerate “covert, manipulative behaviors” on its service, revealing that the People’s Republic of China was running a “significant state-back