The GitHub repository for Meta's open source library React is being spammed with anti-US and anti-Ukrainian comments in English and Mandarin
“False liberty and democracy make me sick!” one message written in Mandarin reads. — Joseph Cox — The Github repository for React … Tweets: @shortformernie , @chronotope , @akryum , @monday_chen , @magicalmrc , @lidangzzz , @sunbuhui7 , @wongmjane , @josephfcox , and @carnage4life Tweets: Ernie Smith / @shortformernie : This is wild. https://twitter.com/... Aram Zucker-Scharff / @chronotope : People keep saying GitHub needs better moderation tools and yeah, GitHub needs better moderation tools. https://twitter.com/... @akryum : I find this behavior pathetic. It's even more pathetic as the react website posted a banner only about helping humanitarian efforts. @GitHub should ban those spammers. https://twitter.com/... @monday_chen : I don't know how describe the shock, anger and shame I'm feeling when I wake up to this without cursing. Many Chinese are spamming react GitHub issues to protect react team's support for Ukraine https://twitter.com/... Jeremy Choi / @magicalmrc : How to identify a failure in political propaganda? #Russia is having a war with #Ukraine, and Russian people didn't have extreme emotional actions on the internet, while Chinese “developers” are trying to condemn #Facebook for supporting Ukraine on GitHub React issue. https://twitter.com/... @lidangzzz : Thousands of Chinese frontend developers are creating spam issues on Reactjs's Github repo, condemning Facebook's support for Ukraine people. “US people are dogs, and Russia will win” “Fuck React, fuck USA” “Russia is your father” “US is a bitch” “US dogs, our missle is ready” https://twitter.com/... @sunbuhui7 : To anti that React supports Ukraine on its website, Chinese programmers open plenty useless issues on its repo. It's weird that Russian don't do these but rather Chinese do. Sigh, I wonder that how worse the internet environment would be if China gov shut down net restrictions. https://twitter.com/... Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane : Statement from the React team: https://github.com/... https://twitter.com/... Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : New: a Github repository maintained by Facebook is being spammed with anti-Ukrainian and US messages. Some support for Ukraine too “will surely kill the hypocritical European and American robbers! False liberty and democracy make me sick!” https://www.vice.com/... @carnage4life : A twist I didn't expect is that pro-Putin developers from China would use the issues page for the React project to express their support for the invasion. As I've said before, every large scale social product will need a wartime policy. Even GitHub. https://twitter.com/...