We (Can’t) Chat: “709 Crackdown” Discussions Blocked on Weibo and WeChat
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This report analyzes the information control practices related to a national crackdown on Chinese rights lawyers and activists on two leading Chinese social media networks. We document the Search filtering on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like service, as well as keyword and image censorship on WeChat, the most popular chat app in China.
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Data visualization by Andrew Hilts. We are sincerely grateful to Professor Ron
Deibert, Sarah McKune, Jason Q. Ng, Adam Senft and Irene Poetranto for
supervision, research assistance and insightful reviews.
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censorship, China, WeChat, Weibo
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Lotus Ruan, Jeffrey Knockel, and Masashi Crete-Nishihata. “We (Can’t) Chat:
‘709 Crackdown’ Discussions Blocked on Weibo and WeChat,” Citizen Lab
Research Report No. 91, University of Toronto, April 2017.
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