K-pop fans leaping to Biden’s defence by essentially hijacking the right-wing-leaning “#ImpeachBidenNow” hashtag – instead filling it with photos and videos of K-pop artistes and mocking anti-Trump comments – might have unwittingly violated Twitter’s rules. — AP
LOS ANGELES: From Donald Trump’s lifetime ban to Elon Musk’s comments about the coronavirus, the rules and policies that govern Twitter have been a subject of extensive discussion and analysis in recent months.
The topic flared up again last week, when K-pop fans essentially hijacked the right-wing-leaning “#ImpeachBidenNow” hashtag, filling it with photos and videos of K-pop artistes and mocking anti-Trump comments, repeating a tactic that they used last spring with the “#WhiteLivesMatter” hashtag.
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