Popular Chinese apps WeChat and RedNote are a tool for political campaigning – but such content is banned. Here’s how parties work around it, including by avoiding proper disclosures.
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Thousands of Chinese Australians get their news on WeChat or RedNote, but there’s evidence disinformation is circulating unchecked.
‘New farmers’ have made the virtues and pleasures of rural life go viral. But with any new big thing on social media, the emerging online popularity comes with a big asterisk.
A survey of 28,454 people found only 5% of LGBTQ+ people in China chose to disclose their sexual and/or gender identity in public settings.
As cities have shut down and residential compounds have issued curfews, social media in China have become more important than ever. But it is a place of rumours and mistruths.
TikTok allows users to create and share short videos with music – there’s a lot of lip synching.
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