Netizens first coined the term “Fifty Cent Party” to refer to undercover Internet commentators who were paid by the government to sway public opinion (“fifty cents” is a reference to the alleged pay...
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Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Days before the anniversary of China’s 1989 assault on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, Chinese censors have forced one of the nation’s more outspoken newspapers to excise a cartoon that...
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