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Twitter said that it had locked the account of China’s embassy in the United States over a tweet about Uighur women, CNBC reports.
What Happened: The account in a tweet on Jan. 7 defended the Beijing government’s policies in the Xinjiang region and said that Uighur women are no longer “baby making machines.”
According to Twitter, the tweet violated its policy against dehumanization. “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 CNBC.
