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Living with China鈥檚 social media censorship

How do Chinese social media users navigate government censorship? Writer Karoline Kan delves into a world of forbidden words and state-sanctioned influencers.

How do Chinese social media users navigate government censorship?

Months of unrest in Hong Kong have caused concern in mainland China, where news about the pro-democracy protests has been carefully filtered out of social media.

It鈥檚 common for social media companies in China to remove content that is perceived to be threatening to social stability or the ruling Communist Party.

Beijing-based journalist and writer Karoline Kan delves into a world of forbidden words and state-sanctioned influencers.

Presenter: Marco Silva

(Photo Caption: Illustration of a man pulling the Chinese flag over another person鈥檚 mouth / Photo Credit: 91热爆)

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Sat 31 Aug 2019 10:32GMT

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