As the Games cast an international spotlight on China, the country’s largest social media platform Weibo scrubbed tens of thousands of posts “related to the Beijing Winter Olympic,” in an effort to stem an onslaught of online abuse directed at underperforming Chinese athletes.
Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, deleted over 41,000 posts and suspended or permanently blocked 850 accounts on Feb. 9, citing “relevant guidelines and policies.”
