The Chinese UK ambassador's account liked an adult clip as well as posts critical of Beijing.
China's UK embassy has asked Twitter to "make thorough investigations" after its ambassador's official account liked a pornographic clip.
A London-based human rights campaigner flagged this to other Twitter users just after 09:00 GMT with a screenshot as proof.But some other tweets remained liked for a time before they too were reversed. Beijing has previously denied holding large numbers of people from the ethnic minority in camps against their will in the western Xinjiang region.
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