Kaiser Kuo and Rebecca MacKinnon comment on the news that Facebook plans to launch a Chinese site later this year. From Ogilvy China Digital Watch:
A report on China-cbn.com (the website of Diyi Caijing Ribao, in Chinese) cites an “industry insider” who says that Facebook plans to release additional language interfaces and intends to enter the China market as early as December this year. The paper claims that Facebook has given up its initial plan to set up its own China-based site like MySpace has done with MySpace.cn, but will instead acquire an existing SNS in China. Who do you suppose that could be? [Full text]
See also Rebecca’s post “Facebook goes to China… will it censor too?”
