Mar 04, 2022 12:30:00

Facebook's GitHub repository is attacked by anti-American and anti-Ukrainian comments that support Russia

It turns out that the GitHub repository of the JavaScript library '

React ' for the user interface operated by Facebook Meta is under a spam attack of messages supporting Russia. The message is written in English and Chinese with anti-American and anti-Ukrainian content.

Don't bring politics to React · Issue # 23402 · facebook / react · GitHub
https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/23402

Most of the comments posted on React's GitHub repository are that 'open source code repositories should be in a position unrelated to politics,' but ' Rakshasa 's people are sure to blame European fake men and American robbers. I'll kill you. '' I heard React is supporting the Nazis. '' The war in the United States has cost tens of thousands of civilians. Why isn't this blamed? '' The U.S. war is in the United States. It is said that comments in English and Chinese such as 'It is the cause!' Are posted as spam.

It's unclear why React is the target of this type of spam, but at the top of React's official page, Facebook's Ukrainian fundraising campaign, 'Let's help humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.' It is possible that this was partly due to the addition of the link .

React – A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
https://reactjs.org/

Dan Abramov, a member of Facebook's React team, said in a thread on React's GitHub repository: 'In Ukraine, as many as one million people are refugees in just one week, and many, including children, are underground shelters. It is reported that they have evacuated to Ukraine and are fighting against freezing temperatures and shortages of supplies. Meta's open source team has taken a stance of jointly providing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, and the React team also supports this stance. I don't think that sending a message about one crisis will hurt those affected by another, so it's free to propose support activities outside Ukraine. , It is a violation of GitHub's Terms of Service to overload the repository with thread rush and comment spam, so GitHub will remove these posts, 'he said.

At the time of reporting, comments judged to be spam have already been deleted.