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.
China has historically been seen as unable to emulate the attractiveness of the world’s more established soft-power bastions.
A digital media scholar and longtime RedNote user gives a firsthand account of US and Chinese social media users interacting on the app.
Chinese social media app RedNote has attracted more than 700,000 new users in the past few days. But it might not be a viable, long-term alternative to TikTok.
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Senior Lecturer in Communication, Deakin University
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Research Fellow at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in International Relations, University of East London
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Senior Lecturer, Communications and Media Studies, Monash University
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PhD Candidate, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Communication, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of Film and Media Studies, Washington University in St. Louis