translator: it s to let people inside china to see what s happening at this very moment. reporter: but that s exactly what authorities want to prevent. here s what happens when you look on social media saying, sorry, no information was found. in shanghai, protesters chanted for xi jinping to step down, calling for freedom and an end to zero covid. and veechers say the chinese government is trying to bury information about the protests from social media abroad. and you get this, a flood of spam and porn advertisements. the spam campaign researchers say appears to be the work of chinese authorities.
the great firewall, to see what s happening in this very moment. reporter: but that s exactly what authorities want to prevent. here s what happens if you search for information aboutgy of the protests on chinese social media. you get a notice that says, sorry, no relevant results are found. meanwhile, on li s twitter account he was rapidly uploading videos of demonstrations across china to shanghai where protesters chanted for xi jinping to step down, calling for freedom and an end to zero covid. and researchers say the chinese government is even trying to bury information about the protests from social media users abroad. search on twitter and chinese characters for cities that had protests and you get this, a flood of spam and porn advertisements. the spam campaign, researchers say, appears to be the work of chinese authorities. twitter did not respond to a request for comment. are you worried about your own
sorry, no relevant results are found. meanwhile on he is twitter account he was rapidly uploading videos of demonstrations across china. from various cities, to shanghai, where protesters chanted for xi jinping to step down, calling for freedom and an end to zero covid. and researchers say the chinese government is even trying to bury information about the protests from social media users abroad. search on twitter and chinese characters for cities that had protests and you get this. a flood of spam and porn advertisements. the spam campaign researchers say it appears to be the work of chinese authorities. twitter did not respond to a request for comment. are you worried about your own safety? [speaking non-english] translator: i get a lot of anonymous harassment saying i know where you are, where you live, and i will kill you.
a man screams with excite as he bikes through streets opened up. but so many others are still counting down their days in quarantine in lockdown, wondering when zero covid will really end. a lot of the protesters like the person i interviewed, they are young, in their 20s and 30s, but they were stillborn before facebook, google and youtube were banned in china. so the person made the point to me that despite the patriotic education they ve been getting fed in school, they still remember what a more open china looked like. now most realize it is too dangerous and unrealistic to call for xi jinping to step down, but at the very least, they just want their old live back when their lives weren t controlled by lockdowns, testing and live quarantines. thank you very much with that incredible, courageous reporting that you continue to do and that interview from beijing. i want to go now to desmond schumm, a powerful chinese businessman whose ex-wife went missing in china in 2017. he is also
it, the writing about it, all identifies it as his policy, and that is really painting him into a corner now. that is why you have these remarkable scenes in china of protest is actually calling for xi jinping to step down, which would have been unimaginable in china a few months ago. and so he may be forced to change, but he has a record of being pretty stubborn, so we willjust have to see whether he actually will implement the changes that people are asking for. but as ou people are asking for. but as you say. people are asking for. but as you say. he people are asking for. but as you say. he is people are asking for. but as you say, he is backed - people are asking for. but as you say, he is backed into i people are asking for. but as you say, he is backed into al you say, he is backed into a corner to a degree because the impact on the economy and clearly the unrest bubbling under the surface, no matter how much they may try and suppress that, if they continue with these local