The New York Times quotes Murong Xuecun<\/strong><\/a> and his literary agent on the Twitter smear campaign the author has been the target of<\/a> since late last month:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amusing to read as bad fiction,\u201d Mr. Murong said in a telephone interview. \u201cSome scenes were written as if the writer were right there, but there is no point-of-view character.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…] Mr. Murong said the smear campaign might have been a response to his participation in a small gathering of Chinese intellectuals in Beijing in May commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. After some attendees of the gathering were detained, Mr. Murong publicly demanded that he be detained as well. In July, he was\u00a0detained and released<\/a>\u00a0after eight and a half hours.<\/p>\n

[…] Mr. Murong said the links were being spread on Twitter, which is blocked in China, rather than on Sina Weibo, the Chinese microblogging service with hundreds of millions of users, probably because he had already lost any meaningful presence on Weibo.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Weibo account has been deleted more than 10 times. I no longer have a voice within the Great Firewall,\u201d he said, referring to the system used to control the Internet in China. [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Murong Xuecun<\/a> is a frequent critic of censorship in China. Many of the accounts that have helped the anti-Murong Xuecun articles to be forwarded over a thousand times are believed to be robots.\u00a0In July, the advocacy group Free Tibet identified nearly\u00a0100\u00a0fake Twitter accounts circulating\u00a0suspiciously cheerful news about life in Tibetan regions of China<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times quotes Murong Xuecun and his literary agent on the Twitter smear campaign the author has been the target of since late last month: \u201cIt\u2019s amusing to read as bad fiction,\u201d Mr. Murong said in a telephone interview. \u201cSome scenes were written as if the writer were right there, but there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":985,"featured_media":177022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,14744,14745,14746,100,5],"tags":[16634,269,5769,7742,690,7525,8339],"class_list":["post-177017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-politics","category-society","tag-authors","tag-blogs","tag-external-propaganda","tag-murong-xuecun","tag-propaganda","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n