The two firms made the 'ludicrous and irresponsible' claim that the Chinese government was behind the 'fake accounts' but failed to provide evidence, the English-language China Daily newspaper said in a commentary. — AP
Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc’s move to close accounts that the companies said were backed by China and attempting to manipulate news about the protests in Hong Kong drew swift backlash from Chinese state media and Internet users.
The Communist Party’s Global Times and People’s Daily newspapers, as well as the state-run China Daily called the crackdown a "double-standard” in editorials published late Tuesday.
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