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1/ THREAD: The @WSJ ran checks on China's most popular social media platforms in the weeks before the Party Congress, searching for the names of Chinese leader Xi, the standing committee members and its 31 provincial and region Party chiefs. Here's what we found:
@WSJ 2/ We analysed Douyin (China's TikTok), Weibo, Baidu's online forum Tieba, the Quora-like Zhihu (知乎)and searched for WeChat blogs using the Sogou search tool.
3/ In his 10 years in power, Xi presided over a boom in censorship that has muzzled online debate in entirely new ways. Influencers with dissenting views silenced, new laws limit online speech, and companies are fined for not policing web content.
Still, the results were a shock.
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Stirring development after the #SitongBridge protest where hundreds of posters of the same msg are all around campuses across the globe. Featuring this one at @EmersonCollege that keeps me sobbing as I rmb doing the same back then & imagining the bravery it takes. Find more below Image
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