WeChatscope is a research initiative at The University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre. WeChatscope aims to make censored articles of WeChat’s public accounts in China open access by monitoring a list of selected WeChat public accounts and detecting removed contents. Learn more: http://wechatscope.jmsc.hku.hk/
Latest posts by Wechatscope
Censored on WeChat: Huawei, ZTE and ‘Amazing China’
The censorship of ZTE and Huawei has strong association with the censorship of "China-U.S trade war".
Censored on WeChat: As tensions in China-US trade conflict rose, so did WeChat censorship
The second installment in our series looks at the most censored topic in the 2018 WeChatscope dataset: the China-US trade war.
Censored on WeChat: A year of content removals on China's most powerful social media platform
Our team tracked censored posts from more than 4,000 public accounts covering daily news on WeChat. Here is what we found.