A look at the rise of online feminism in China, driven by content on apps like Weibo, Douyin, WeChat, and Douban, despite increased scrutiny from the platforms
Lying in bed one night in 2021, Zhang Zirui was swiping through Chinese social media app Weibo when she came across a post that gave her pause. Mastodon: @TechDesk@flipboard.social Mastodon: @TechDesk...
China's biggest movie star, Zhao Wei, who had 86M Weibo followers, was erased from China's internet on August 26, amid a clampdown on its entertainment industry
Zhao Wei was the Reese Witherspoon of China, then she was censored by the Communist Party amid a clampdown of the country's entertainment industry Tweets: @xinwenfan , @jerrydunleavy , @jchengwsj , @j...
Weibo users describe how political discussions on the platform have become even more muted amid pervasive censorship, as some resort to using burner accounts
Baseless YouTube conspiracy videos, embraced by CCP media and uploaded to WeChat, Weibo, claim a US Army reservist started the pandemic and are ruining her life
Maatje Benassi, a US Army reservist and mother of two, has become the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely place … Tweets: @cnni , @hadas_gold , @seldo , @cnnnewsroom , @jesselehrich , and @jjma...
Huawei's reputation in China, once unimpeachable, has been dented by a labor dispute over severance pay with an employee, who was recently freed from jail
When an executive wrote about her house arrest in Canada, an outcry about a former employee's treatment arose on social media. Tweets: @nytimes , @liyuan6 , @liyuan6 , and @maryhui Tweets: @nytimes : ...
A look at Tree Hole Rescue, which uses AI to detect suicidal messages on Weibo, and has rescued ~700 people who attempted suicide in China in the last 18 months
Li Fan, a 21-year-old student, attempted suicide after posting a brief message on the Chinese Twitter-like platform Weibo just after Valentine's Day.
Anonymous former Weibo censor discusses off limit topics, sensitive words, and methodology
Yaqiu Wang / Committee to Protect Journalists : Tweets: @nktpnd Tweets: Ankit Panda / @nktpnd : “The Communist Party was terrified by Weibo, staring at it with fear and the determination to tame it” ...