Dynamics of opinion curation and user agency on and off WeChat are more complex than the misperception that it is a trap for the Chinese diaspora, write Haiqing Yu (RMIT) and Wanning Sun (UTS)
Since its inception in 2011, WeChat has become one of the most popular messaging apps in China with over 1 billion monthly active users. However, the app has come under fire in recent years for censoring certain topics and for allegedly sharing user data with the Chinese government. As a result, some people have called […]
Chinese censorship invades the U.S. via WeChat
Jeanne Whalen, The Washington Post
Jan. 7, 2021
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1of3Zhou Fengsuo, an organizer in the Tiananmen Square protests who came to the United States in 1995, supports the Trump administration s effort to ban the app WeChat.photo for The Washington Post by Bryan Anselm.Show MoreShow Less
2of3Zhou Fengsuo s colleague, Ouyang Ruoyu, left, has also had his posts censored on the app WeChat and supports a U.S. ban.photo for The Washington Post by Bryan Anselm.Show MoreShow Less
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NEWARK, N.J. - Zhou Fengsuo, a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, hoped to leave Chinese censorship behind when he fled to the United States and became a U.S. citizen. But Chinese censors have caught up with him, through the social-networking service WeChat.