This week, a striking series of infographics meant to highlight social issues such as poverty, disability, depression, youth unemployment, and elder care were scrubbed from Weibo, leaving only the blank gray boxes that Weibo...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The Cyberspace Administration of China threatened “a complete shut down” of Sina news...
China’s influential “Big V” microbloggers have been primary targets in the...
As of March this year, social and political commentator Li Chengpeng’s Sina blog had received more...
As of April 28, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
China’s state media regulator says it will revoke Sina’s licenses to publish...
The Wall Street Journal reports on microblogging service Sina Weibo’s plan to launch an IPO...
Paul Mozur at China Real Time reports restrictions on more than 100,000 Sina Weibo accounts for...
Weibo users respond to Twitter’s initial public offering on Friday: @微博搜索: The US financial bubble...
News of Twitter’s IPO on Friday was greeted with wry comments on the service’s Chinese...
At Reuters, Li Hui and Megha Rajagopalan look inside Sina Weibo’s Tianjin censorship center, where...
Bloomberg reports the latest development in Beijing’s battle against the “cancer” of online rumors, the launch of a new rumor-busting website by companies including Baidu, Sina, Sohu, and Netease: The site...
Saturday’s 6.6Mw earthquake in Sichuan has killed 193 and injured over 12,000, but has also laid bare the extent of damage to the reputation of the Red Cross Society of China. At The New York Times, Edward Wong examined...
At Tech in Asia, Charles Custer surveys the stakes in the brewing battle between between Sina Weibo and Tencent’s Weixin (or WeChat). Weibo, he argues, has repeatedly helped local social and environmental issues coalesce...
At ChinaFile, Ouyang Bin talks to former Southern Weekly editor Chang Ping about the New Year censorship stand-off at the newspaper, China’s changing media climate, and prospects for reform under Xi Jinping. Why does it...
The heavy-handed rewriting of the Southern Weekly newspaper’s traditional New Year greeting has triggered a staff strike, a barrage of letters and petitions, and an upwelling of popular support both on- and offline. In the...
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