India, Jan. 31 -- Nikita Bier, X's head of product, in a tweet, accused the Chinese government of flooding the social media platform with pornographic spam during political unrest. He shared the post in response to complaints from users saying "Chinese search on X is broken".

"The Chinese government floods X search results with porn whenever there is political unrest-to prevent their citizens from finding out real-time information. This has been a difficult problem to solve but we are aware & working on it," wrote Nikita Bier.

He shared the post in response to an X user asking, "Chinese search on X is broken. It's filled with spam and illicit ads, making it impossible to find useful info. Also, when using the 'from:' filter to search my...