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Amid a tsunami of conspiracy, misinformation and xenophobia that spread across social media during the Covid pandemic, Hong Kong had something special on Twitter and Facebook. Hear about the online community known as the Hong Kong Quarantine Support group and one man's story of "the thread of the pandemic" which began when he called for users to look out for his elderly mother flying from New York to Hong Kong. Meet the man behind the Twitter account known as @Tripperhead, dedicated to parsing and posting the daily data dumps and Covid policy updates of the Hong Kong government.

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