Twitter is not accessible to China’s 1.4 billion residents, according to the Chinese authorities. However, its local government spends money on service-related global advertising. Reporters from Reuters discovered that throughout the previous two years, local government officials and Chinese Communist Party propaganda bureaus purchased advertisements. They purchased the advertisements for local authorities and cities looking to boost tourism. China has emerged as one of the service’s top non-U.S. revenue generators and the foreign advertising market with the quickest growth rate. Twitter claimed that it typically does not allow advertising from state-run media. It has, however, occasionally made an exception. The...