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China’s Porn Tsunami vs. Europe’s Propaganda Pudding: A Guide to Distracting the Masses in 2026

In a stunning revelation, X’s Head of Product Nikita Bier dropped a truth bomb back in January 2026: whenever political unrest flares up in China, the government allegedly unleashes a digital deluge of porn straight into Chinese-language search results on X.

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China’s Porn Tsunami vs. Europe’s Propaganda Pudding: A Guide to Distracting the Masses in 2026

Not subtle bots. Not fake news.

Just wall-to-wall, no-holds-barred adult content designed to make citizens go, “Wait, what was I searching for again? Oh right, that.”


Problem solved, comrades.

China gets porn, EU gets EU federalist propaganda.


While Beijing plays 4D chess with spam accounts from a pre-registered pool of 5-10 million bots, Europe’s playing 4D bingo with slides titled “A More Perfect Union: Why Your Sovereignty Was Never That Important Anyway.”


In Brussels, a concerned citizen searches “Why is my energy bill higher than a Dutch tulip farm?” and is immediately flooded with 12 official EU Commission press releases, three von der Leyen speeches on “strategic autonomy,” and a mandatory 45-minute explainer video on how carbon taxes are actually saving the planet (spoiler: they’re not).


In authoritarian regimes, they treat their citizens like children who can’t be trusted with the family computer.

In the EU, they treat them like slightly dim-witted students who need endless lectures on why the family computer is actually a tool for collective good.


So the million-yuan question: how do we get the EU to ditch the propaganda pudding and switch to the Chinese strategy?



Source: https://x.com/Coinvo/status/2059560243693298051

Nikita Bier’s original post (Jan 30, 2026):

https://x.com/nikitabier/status/2017134769113542752

PCMag article:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/x-accuses-china-of-using-porn-spam-to-hide-tweets-about-political-unrest

Bonus follow-up tweet (the one that mentions the 5–10 million pre-registered bot accounts):

https://x.com/nikitabier/status/2017136051782103050

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