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REPORT: Peng Lifa's two Twitter accounts

REPORT: Peng Lifa's two Twitter accounts

Posts made on Twitter by the now-disappeared Peng Lifa have been deleted.

Oct 19, 2022
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REPORT: Peng Lifa's two Twitter accounts
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This is one of a handful of posts that can still be seen online

First the man is taken into custody, then his posts become ghosts, too.

Did Twitter fall under “foreign” pressure to delete the tweets of the hero of Sitong Bridge?

Did Peng Lifa’s “custodians” crack his passwords or force him to give them access to his accounts? Why did a hidden hand delete most, but not all, of his tweets?

Did Twitter lock his account or do anything to protect the information posted by a member of the Twitter community now locked in detention?

Is Twitter directly contributing to the censorship of posts of a man jailed for a bold but peaceful act of free expression?

Peng Lifa's accounts have been all but emptied out. His prior posts ranged from cat pix to political abuses.

Twitter can and should immediately restore Peng Lifa's two known accounts:

彭载舟 @lifa_Petter (Peng Zaizhou)

peng.phy @peng_phy

The loss of Peng's posts on China-controlled social networks such as Tiktok and WeChat is regrettable, but perha…

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