The Chinese government is censoring messages left by Western embassies on social media site Weibo, according to a report. The Twitter-like tool was once hailed for empowering foreign diplomats to use "Weiplomacy" to reach hundreds of millions of people. Ying Jiang, a scholar at the University of Adelaide, analyzed more than 60,000 comments on embassy Weibo pages, and found that, for Canada and the United States, negative responses heavily outweighed positive. But the the Australian Strategic Policy's Weibo diplomacy and censorship in China report showed that Chinese authorities are redacting material from embassies' posts. A spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry said it had no comment about the report, which cited an anonymous source who claimed to have seen censored messages.
The Chinese government is censoring messages left by Western embassies on social media site Weibo, according to a report. The Twitter-like tool was once hailed for empowering foreign diplomats to use "Weiplomacy" to reach hundreds of millions of people. But the the Australian Strategic Policy's Weibo diplomacy and censorship in China report showed that Chinese authorities are redacting material from embassies' posts. A spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry said it had no comment about the report, which cited an anonymous source who claimed to have seen censored messages.