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Chinese Social Media Platforms Delete Thousands of Posts Following Online Abuse of Athletes

Chinese Social Media Platforms Delete Thousands of Posts Following Online Abuse of Athletes
China's Zhu Yi cries after competing in the women's single skating free skating of the figure skating team event during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing on Feb. 7, 2022. Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images
Dorothy Li
2/13/2022|Updated: 2/18/2022
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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.”
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