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Megha Rajagopalan
@meghara
Chinese language keyword "US Embassy in Beijing explosion" is already being censored on Weibo.
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William Yang
@WilliamYang120
I typed in the keyword "北京美國大使館爆炸" just minutes ago and the real-time posts from just 20 minutes ago have all been removed. The most recent post dates back to 2016. #Censorship is def deployed within a very short period of time. #China #USembassyexplosion #Beijing
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@tdmhang
Actually ,there is no explosion taking place in US Embassy , as journalist the word you use are very biased
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Megha Rajagopalan
@meghara
Wait but then why is the keyword censored rather than just posts with inaccurate information? Genuine images are also not searchable. Maybe the goal is to stop inaccurate rumors but it also stops people who are genuinely at the scene.
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