Twitter locks account of Chinese embassy in Washington
24 January 2021 |
6:38 am
Twitter has locked the account of the Chinese embassy in the US following a tweet it says violated its stand against "dehumanizing" people. The embassy had posted that Uighur women were "no longer baby-making machines."
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