Twitter’s toxicity, and what China’s protestors need

By Scott Wiener, a California state senator who represents San Francisco and northern San Mateo County.

A mere day after Elon Musk reactivated Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account, she tweeted that I’m a “communist groomer,” presumably as a result of I’m a homosexual Jewish Democratic elected official from San Francisco.

Previously when Greene has gone after me with homophobic or transphobic tropes, I’ve obtained elevated abuse on social media, however this was an escalation past what I’m used to. And that escalation, which was particularly pronounced after the Membership Q bloodbath, was due much less to Greene than to Twitter’s new proprietor, Elon Musk.

Since finalizing his buy of Twitter, Musk has introduced a few of the platform’s most infamous banned customers again to the flock. The reinstatement of those accounts, together with Donald Trump and Kanye West, will make Twitter way more poisonous than it was earlier than. And bringing them again not solely forgives their previous conduct, it validates and enshrines their rhetoric as pillars of Twitter’s platform going ahead. Learn the complete story.

What Shanghai protesters need and worry

Almost three years after the pandemic began, protests have erupted in cities and cities throughout China. Individuals have taken to the streets to mourn the lives misplaced in an condo hearth in Urumqi and to demand that the federal government roll again its strict pandemic insurance policies, which many blame for trapping those that died. 

It’s the biggest grassroots protest in China in a long time, and it’s occurring at a time when the Chinese language authorities is best than ever at monitoring and suppressing dissent. Nevertheless, whereas discussions amongst foreigners have too typically lowered the protests to essentially the most sensational clips, the fact is extra sophisticated. Whereas all of the protestors are in opposition to the zero-covid controls, their reasonings—and motivations—for pushing change range wildly. Learn the complete story.

—Zeyi Yang

This story is from China Report, our weekly publication supplying you with the within monitor on all the things that’s occurring within the nation. Signal as much as obtain it in your inbox each Tuesday.