Tag: Directives from the Ministry of Truth

air pollution air quality Beijing censorship Chai Jing Chengdu child abuse corruption Daxing fire

Minitrue 2017: February—Smog, AI, HIV

This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in 2017, and then leaked and distributed online. The names of issuing bodies have been omitted to protect sources. January’s pair of pollution-related directives were followed by another in February, ordering the deletion of an article from state media news site The Paper. The piece described the results of a Peking University study which found that high