Twitter on Thursday locked the account of the Chinese embassy in Washington over a tweet defending Beijing’s policy toward Uighur Muslims, which the U.S. this week labeled a genocide.
The move stemmed from a tweet from the embassy claiming that Uighur women in the Xinjiang province “were emancipated” and “no longer baby-making machines.” Twitter said the post violated its stand against “dehumanizing” people. The tweet was removed, though screengrabs of it remain online.
Twitter hides tweets that breach its policies and mandates that accounts take down such posts. The Chinese embassy has not tweeted since Jan. 8.
“We’ve taken action on the Tweet…for violating our policy against dehumanization, where it states: We prohibit the dehumanization of a group of people based on their religion, caste, age, disability, serious disease, national origin, race, or ethnicity,” a Twitter spokesperson told The Hill on Thursday.
Twitter is blocked in China, though it is commonly used by state media and diplomats around the world.
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Chinese embassy's Twitter account locked after post defending treatment of Uighurs https://t.co/z70ZLDuwgG pic.twitter.com/solNFKaIyV
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