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• @catcontentonly @catcontentonly on x

  Rose is a popular tik tok/Douyin food content creator in China. She's originally from Uganda, but now lives in a Chinese village w her husband and their son, and they create cooking videos together. Here she is making one of my favorite dishes 😋 https://twitter.com/...

• @gtooowavyy @gtooowavyy on x

  People who refuse to download TikTok be thinking they got a PhD in maturity

• @jgriffiths James Griffiths on x

  “Chinese people love watching how other places are not as good as China. If you film some advanced stuff here, people might not like watching. They would rather see lives that are worse than their own.” https://restofworld.org/...

• @feministajones @feministajones on x

  Ok this was hard to get through. Sickness. Pure colonizing sickness. https://twitter.com/...

• @ianbetteridge Ian Betteridge on x

  The Chinese colonialist project in Africa is pretty much the same as every other colonialist project in Africa. The only difference is their racist narrative is told on soclal media rather than in newspapers. https://restofworld.org/...

• @violazhouyi Viola Zhou on x

  Exclusive Chinese short-video apps are quietly cracking down on influencers in Africa, who have built fortunes producing racist, misogynist content, after BBC investigation Racism for Sale triggered outcry across Africa https://restofworld.org/... via @restofworld

• @khushbuoshea Khushbu Shah on x

  .@violazhouyi analyzed two dozen+ accounts in Guinea, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, and Kenya - & other countries in Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia - found Chinese vloggers with millions of followers use racism to sell snacks and products to viewers For @restofworld https…

• @cobbo3 Charles Onyango-Obbo on x

  Popular videos show Chinese influencers engaged in racist and misogynist displays of power over people in Africa fuel a multimillion-dollar business 1/3 https://restofworld.org/...

• @blackamazon @blackamazon on x

  This is just fantastic ass reporting https://twitter.com/...

• @zeyiyang Zeyi Yang on x

  Great story on one of the dark sides of China's booming livestream entertainment industry https://twitter.com/...

• @williamyang120 William Yang on x

  From @violazhouyi: “In dozens of videos filmed and uploaded by these influencers, Black people, including children, are shown to embrace Chinese language and culture. Black women are degraded as sexual objects, ... https://restofworld.org/...

• @ruima Rui Ma on x

  This was sooo gross to read. There's a lot of straight up misogynist, racist, violent or worse content on these Chinese video platforms. Recently it took a lot of ppl reporting to get some influencer making $ advocating domestic violence (which is a crime!) banned. https://twitte…