05 四月 2026, 12:15
On March 25, WeChat announced that since the beginning of the year, it had permanently banned 1,209 accounts and sanctioned more than 60,000 accounts for various violations. Alongside this tightening platform censorship, many WeChat bloggers have published articles explaining to their readers why certain of their posts were blocked or deleted, or giving advice to […]
05 四月 2026, 08:15
On March 25, WeChat announced that since the beginning of the year, it had permanently banned 1,209 accounts and sanctioned more than 60,000 accounts for various violations. Alongside this tightening platform censorship, many WeChat bloggers have published articles explaining to their readers why certain of their posts were blocked or deleted, or giving advice to […]
04 四月 2026, 18:15
On March 25, WeChat announced that since the beginning of the year, it had permanently banned 1,209 accounts and sanctioned more than 60,000 accounts for various violations. Alongside this tightening platform censorship, many WeChat bloggers have published articles explaining to their readers why certain of their posts were blocked or deleted, or giving advice to […]
04 四月 2026, 12:15
On March 25, WeChat announced that since the beginning of the year, it had permanently banned 1,209 accounts and sanctioned more than 60,000 accounts for various violations. Alongside this tightening platform censorship, many WeChat bloggers have published articles explaining to their readers why certain of their posts were blocked or deleted, or giving advice to […]
04 四月 2026, 08:15
On March 25, WeChat announced that since the beginning of the year, it had permanently banned 1,209 accounts and sanctioned more than 60,000 accounts for various violations. Alongside this tightening platform censorship, many WeChat bloggers have published articles explaining to their readers why certain of their posts were blocked or deleted, or giving advice to […]
03 四月 2026, 18:15
On March 25, WeChat announced that since the beginning of the year, it had permanently banned 1,209 accounts and sanctioned more than 60,000 accounts for various violations. Alongside this tightening platform censorship, many WeChat bloggers have published articles explaining to their readers why certain of their posts were blocked or deleted, or giving advice to […]
03 四月 2026, 08:15
Last week, educational influencer Zhang Xuefeng passed away suddenly from a cardiac arrest at the age of 41. On Saturday, huge crowds thronged the streets near a funeral home in Suzhou to pay tribute to the “entrance exam guru” who had advised so many young people and their parents—particularly those from rural and working-class backgrounds—on […]
27 行进 2026, 12:15
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “404: content not found”) from Chinese platforms such as WeChat, Weibo, Douyin (TikTok’s counterpart in the Chinese market), Xiaohongshu (RedNote), Bilibili, Zhihu, […]
24 行进 2026, 08:15
On Monday, the Hong Kong government gazetted amendments to the implementation rules of the National Security Law that would significantly expand the powers granted to law enforcement, including the ability to compel suspects in national security investigations to reveal their device passwords under threat of fines or jail time. Hong Kong’s Legislative Council was not […]
23 行进 2026, 12:15
During the “Two Sessions” legislative meetings earlier this month, one of the topics that attracted the most public attention was raising farmers’ pensions to reduce rural poverty and address the urban-rural pension gap. Although the recommended rise this year was a paltry 20 yuan (approximately $3 U.S.) per month, there appears to be growing political […]
23 行进 2026, 12:15
The post below, the latest of several recent translations on the difficulties of navigating WeChat’s unpredictable content restrictions, describes how views of an innocuous post about the TV drama “Swords into Plowshares” abruptly flatlined after political disharmony erupted in the comments section. The historical drama “shows how the chaotic Five Dynasties shifted from fragmentation to […]
19 行进 2026, 08:15
During the recently concluded “Two Sessions” annual legislative meetings, the National People’s Congress (NPC) passed a new “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” that many scholars and educators fear will threaten the survival of languages including Tibetan, Mongolian, and Uyghur, and further undermine cultural identity among non-Han communities in China. Strongly promoted by Xi […]
12 行进 2026, 08:15
In what is becoming an annual event, a spate of bans on the eve of March 8 International Women’s Day has struck numerous WeChat public accounts focused on feminism, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, combatting human trafficking, and promoting mental health, a sign of the continuing stigmatization and silencing of debate about these issues. Many bloggers […]
11 行进 2026, 08:15
China Digital Times (CDT) is seeking a fundraising consultant. CDT (chinadigitaltimes.net) is a bilingual non-profit media organization that brings marginalized and censored voices from China to the world. Reporting to the President, the fundraising consultant will participate actively in our fundraising strategy by developing and maintaining a portfolio of prospective individual and institutional supporters, managing […]
10 行进 2026, 08:15
The death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a U.S.-Israeli missile strike on February 28 was widely discussed on Chinese social media. Much of this conversation was reflexive, using the event to comment on various issues in China, ranging from economic anxiety over the aftermath to the P.R.C.’s information environment and the settling of […]
08 行进 2026, 08:15
In the run-up to March 8 International Women’s Day, a comedian known as Xiao Pa (full name Paziliyaer Paerhati) had her Weibo account suspended for posting this joke: “I’ve been bedridden for two days with a high fever. Suddenly it hit me that if I had a husband and kids, I’d be clinging to the […]
05 行进 2026, 08:15
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “404: content not found”) from Chinese platforms such as WeChat, Weibo, Douyin (TikTok’s counterpart in the Chinese market), Xiaohongshu (RedNote), Bilibili, Zhihu, […]
04 行进 2026, 12:15
A pair of recent publications sheds light on different aspects of generative AI’s use in PRC information control activities and, in one case, on how that can backfire. A paper from Stanford’s Jennifer Pan and Princeton’s Xu Xu explores how government regulation shapes output from Chinese companies’ LLM chatbots. The latest in a series of […]
28 二月 2026, 08:15
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “404: content not found”) from Chinese platforms such as WeChat, Weibo, Douyin (TikTok’s counterpart in the Chinese market), Xiaohongshu (RedNote), Bilibili, Zhihu, […]
26 二月 2026, 12:15
This winter, a heating crisis struck rural Hebei after provincial authorities banned domestic coal-burning and then rolled back subsidies for natural gas, leaving many residents facing prohibitively expensive bills. Much of the censored content archived by CDT in January focused on this issue. Deleted commentary included explanations of the financial burden, who was bearing it, […]