“Sorry, the headlines have been obscured by a giant haze; please click your mouse to clear it up.” If only cleaning up Beijing were as easy as following the above circled instructions on Sohu, a Chinese Internet portal. In response to unprecedentedly filthy air in the Chinese capital, Sohu’s humorous innovation has Chinese Web users talking. [...]
Chinese authorities’ heavy-handed censorship often makes headlines, but another force does just as much to obscure the truth and control the media. That force is fake news. Something must fill the void left by the deleted, blocked, and discouraged content, and fake news is often that “something,” as fiction is more flexible than fact, and [...]
Chinese authorities’ heavy-handed censorship often makes headlines, but another force does just as much to obscure the truth and control the media. That force is fake news. Something must fill the void left by the deleted, blocked, and discouraged content, and fake news is often that “something,” as fiction is more flexible than fact, and [...]
It’s spring outside, but a chill wind is blowing through the Chinese blogosphere. After the government shocked observers with a Friday night crackdown that saw 16 sites shuttered for “spreading malicious rumors” with “negative social effects” and over 1,000 people detained for “Internet crimes,” frost is beginning to creep across China’s cyberspace. News of the [...]
Rachel of Tea Leaf Nation is honored to be a guest columnist for TechRice, a popular blog that offers sharp analysis of the China tech scene, from startups to internet giants and angels to IPOs. Here is a short excerpt from the article Romance of the Three Microblog Kingdoms brewed by Dragonwell. For the entire article, please see [...]
Censorship has just cost Sina Weibo, China’s premier microblogging platform, two of its major liberal voices. Just days apart, Messrs. Zhang Min and Yu Jianrong, two liberal professors that Tea Leaf Nation has profiled in its series “Who’s Who on China’s Twitter,” have defected to Sohu Weibo, an up-and-coming microblogging platform. On January 6, after [...]
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