Chinas Porn Spam Campaign Fuels Digital Authoritarianism: Experts

A woman holds a phone displaying the X app, in this file photo, on Aug. 11, 2024. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch TimesBeijing 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.