Posted on 05/09/2020 5:22:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Documents and images shared by users outside China on WeChat, the country’s most popular social media platform, are being monitored and cataloged for use in political censorship in China, a new report says.
Citizen Lab, the University of Toronto online watchdog, says in Thursday’s report that WeChat users outside of China are thus unwittingly contributing to censorship. Content they share that censors deem inappropriate is thus barred from being seen by users inside China.
Tencent is a major investor in Cary-based Epic Games, which is publisher of the globally popular Fortnite.
Documents and images transmitted entirely among non-China-registered accounts undergo content surveillance wherein these files are analyzed for content that is politically sensitive in China.
An estimated 100 million people use WeChat outside China
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Democrats are taking note.
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