Chinese human rights lawyer Chen Qiushi confirmed that he has returned safely to mainland China after visiting Hong Kong last week to observe the protests and broadcast video commentaries about them on social media. Chen was forced to end his trip ahead of schedule after receiving pressure from...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source....
In separate incidents on Tuesday, the fifth day of a sit-in that had paralyzed Hong Kong airport, two mainland Chinese men were detained and beaten by protesters. Anger at increasingly aggressive...
Amid an escalating trade war between the U.S. and China, nationalistic sentiment has been proliferating on Weibo and other Chinese social media, carefully encouraged by state media. On May 18, the...
Twitter announced today that the company will start labeling tweets and accounts from official media, focusing on those from China and Russia. For clarity: we don't let state-affiliated media accounts advertise on Twitter....
Zhang Jieping is the founder and CEO of Matters Lab, a decentralized content platform. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of Initium Media and Executive Editor-in-Chief for iSun Affairs. Following the implementation of the new...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan in January before spreading around the world, the Chinese government has increasingly utilized foreign social media networks—including several that are blocked in China—to spread its...
Dr. Li Wenliang was one of eight initially unnamed “rumormongers” whose punishments for “spreading illegal and false information” about the coronavirus outbreak were used by Wuhan authorities and state...
In August, Matters News published an interview with CDT founder and Editor-in-Chief Xiao Qiang. The interview, by freelance writer Xiran, examines the events and motivations that led Xiao to become a human rights activist and...
Ongoing demonstrations in Hong Kong against now-suspended extradition rules and aggressive...
Lesbian content was banned on Sina Weibo last week, with related same-sex discussion forums and...
The New Yorker this week features a piece of short fiction by Te-Ping Chen, drawing on her time as...
Although blocked since 2009, Twitter has long hosted a sizeable community of users within China,...
At around 1pm on Thursday, an explosive device was detonated outside the U.S. embassy in Beijing....
A recent scandal in which substandard DPT vaccinations were reported to have possibly been...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Gao Yan was a Chinese literature student at Peking University who killed herself in 1998 after her...
The following censorship instructions, issued by government authorities, have been leaked and...
When Liang Xiangyi’s vigorous eye-roll at a fellow reporter’s rambling, obsequious,...
Last Sunday, the Australian Financial Review reported that Australia’s Defense Department...
A new report from PEN America, "Forbidden Feeds," examines the steady tightening of...
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