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One of WeChat public account claimed the U.S. to conceal the information of epidemic and make hamburgers with corpses; More than a million people read on average; the account was banned permanently
(26 May) WeChat public account in China called “ZhiDao School” had more than a million followers, it was even the top of the most influential public account in April. However, recently Tencent banned this account permanently because of making up fake news.
Before banning, the last article was to criticize the U.S. hiding the epidemic information and making hamburgers with dead bodies. They could solve the issue of food shortage and handling corpses. Another article was about China’s military has advantage over the US’s military. It is because due to time zone difference, if China firedmissile today, US would have got attack yesterday. The U.S. couldn’t defence such kind “hyperspace attack”.
Many similar types of articles were published by “ZhiDao School”, for example, English was a low-level language, Olympics was sex party, people outside the Great Wall of China were refugees or boars. But recently this public account made rare criticism towards Chinese, it insinuated Zhong Nanshan, a fellow of engineering academy, as a beneficiary of “multinational drugs corporation”.
Tencent banned WeChat public account of “ZhiDao School” since Monday. However, its website and Sina Weibo still functioned well, and announced that it got complaints by “internet marketer” on a large scale. That’s why the account was blocked temporarily. After seeing the announcement, some netizens left messages saying that they were upset since they couldn’t read the article at once, they also asked whether there would be a new [public] account.
Mass communication scholar of Zhang Jiang pointed out the government allowed these types of self-media to exist. A ban this time was only because it was too over. He said patriotic was business now. “It is politics behind the business. But politics is changeable. The voice of against the West may be strong today. But if tomorrow the trend is to improve the relationship with the West, they will be sacrificed. These self-medias are just like tissue paper, being used when wiping is needed. Otherwise, they are thrown away.” However, Zhang reminded no matter how popular these articles are, it still couldn’t be used to judge the primary trend in China, because all the information that the rest of the world could see is all censored by the authority.
Source: iCable China Team
#China #US #Wechat #FakeNews #Coronavirus #Epidemic #hamburgers
One of WeChat public account claimed the U.S. to conceal the information of epidemic and make hamburgers with corpses; More than a million people read on average; the account was banned permanently
(26 May) WeChat public account in China called “ZhiDao School” had more than a million followers, it was even the top of the most influential public account in April. However, recently Tencent banned this account permanently because of making up fake news.
Before banning, the last article was to criticize the U.S. hiding the epidemic information and making hamburgers with dead bodies. They could solve the issue of food shortage and handling corpses. Another article was about China’s military has advantage over the US’s military. It is because due to time zone difference, if China firedmissile today, US would have got attack yesterday. The U.S. couldn’t defence such kind “hyperspace attack”.
Many similar types of articles were published by “ZhiDao School”, for example, English was a low-level language, Olympics was sex party, people outside the Great Wall of China were refugees or boars. But recently this public account made rare criticism towards Chinese, it insinuated Zhong Nanshan, a fellow of engineering academy, as a beneficiary of “multinational drugs corporation”.
Tencent banned WeChat public account of “ZhiDao School” since Monday. However, its website and Sina Weibo still functioned well, and announced that it got complaints by “internet marketer” on a large scale. That’s why the account was blocked temporarily. After seeing the announcement, some netizens left messages saying that they were upset since they couldn’t read the article at once, they also asked whether there would be a new [public] account.
Mass communication scholar of Zhang Jiang pointed out the government allowed these types of self-media to exist. A ban this time was only because it was too over. He said patriotic was business now. “It is politics behind the business. But politics is changeable. The voice of against the West may be strong today. But if tomorrow the trend is to improve the relationship with the West, they will be sacrificed. These self-medias are just like tissue paper, being used when wiping is needed. Otherwise, they are thrown away.” However, Zhang reminded no matter how popular these articles are, it still couldn’t be used to judge the primary trend in China, because all the information that the rest of the world could see is all censored by the authority.
Source: iCable China Team
#China #US #Wechat #FakeNews #Coronavirus #Epidemic #hamburgers