WeChat, China’s top messaging app, no longer tells users when it censors their messages

Business & Technology

Other findings from a new report on WeChat by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab highlight how Tencent’s censorship tools can follow users outside the country.

Lucas Niewenhuis

Lucas Niewenhuis is the Newsletter Editor at The China Project. Previously, he has researched China-Africa relations at the Social Science Research Council, interned at the Council on Foreign Relations, and studied Chinese language and culture in Shanghai and Beijing. Read more

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