Twitter Moves to Get Around Russia Ban With Tor Site

From PC Mag: Twitter is poking a hole in Russia’s attempt to block access to the social media platform by creating a way to access the site on the dark web.

To visit the page, a user has to first download the Tor browser, which is designed to anonymize your web traffic. It can also help users access government-blocked websites by routing your internet traffic through a network of volunteer servers across the globe.

Twitter's Tor site is also designed to work more efficiently over the Tor network, making it easier to access while also providing better user anonymity. But interestingly, the social media platform is not officially promoting the Tor mirror site. Instead, it quietly announced the project through Alec Muffet, a cybersecurity expert who helped Twitter engineers create the Tor destination.

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