Twitter locks out China’s US embassy after ‘baby-making machines’ tweet
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has locked the official account for China's US embassy, over a tweet it said violated its policy against dehumanization, Bloomberg reports. The tweet, which was originally shared on January 7th, referred to Uighur women as baby-making machines" prior to government intervention. Twitter removed the tweet and replaced it with a notice saying it's no longer available. However, Twitter requires account owners to manually delete tweets that violate its rules before unlocking accounts.
Twitter confirmed the account's locking in a statement given to Bloomberg. We have taken action on this Tweet for violating our policy against dehumanization," and said the platform prohibits dehumanization of a group of people based on their...