Livestreaming on Douyin and Kuaishou is helping attract out-of-town property buyers to Xishuangbanna in China's Yunnan province, despite a nationwide downturn
Caiwei Chen / Rest of World : X: @anupkaphle and @caiweic X: Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : China's property market has plummeted since the pandemic. So why are sales booming in one tropical border town...
Chinese social platforms like Weibo and Douyin require popular users to reveal their real names, forcing some influencers to either cull their followers or quit
Caiwei Chen / Rest of World : X: @caiweic and @xuhulk X: Caiwei Chen / @caiweic : Chinese influencers are mass blocking their fans, if not quitting social media at all to get away with the new social...
How some Chinese data labeling companies hired by Baidu, Alibaba, and JD.com to train AI are exploiting vocational school students via data labeling internships
the exploitation of cheap labour in the AI industry; often underpaid and overlooked critical roles 1/2 https://restofworld.org/... Viola Zhou / @violazhouyi : Tech companies like Baidu have establishe...
How Chinese language subreddits like r/China_irl became a refuge for banned Chinese internet groups, as VPN users jump the Great Firewall to speak more freely
Caiwei Chen / Rest of World : Twitter: @yilingliu95 , @caiweic , @blackamazon , and @jordanschnyc Twitter: Yi-Ling Liu / @yilingliu95 : Exiled from the Chinese internet, online communities find a new...