CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we ...

Following more than a week of speculation that Chengdu’s You Xing Bookstore (有杏书店, Yǒu Xìng Shūdiàn) would soon close, amid ...

The image above shows a one-man protest that reportedly took place at the high-end Taikoo Li Sanlitun mall (formerly Sanlitun ...

Last Saturday, November 8, was China’s National Journalists’ Day—often an occasion for mixed feelings among China’s beleaguered independent journalists. The WeChat account 磨稿子 Mó Gǎozi, or “Polishing ...

The inaugural IndieChina Film Festival (IndieChina电影节, IndieChina Diànyǐngjié), which was set to run from November 8-15 in New York City, has been forced to close due to what appears to be a ...

Taiwanese singer Zheng Zhihua’s complaint about a difficult experience boarding a flight at Shenzhen’s main airport has spurred heated online debate about barrier-free access for disabled people in ...

Chai Jing is the impassioned journalist known for her viral self-funded documentary on air pollution, "Under the Dome" (Qióngdǐng zhīxià 穹顶之下). Co-released online in February 2015 by Youku and ...

Ermeiyaoxiaodao (@二枚腰小道): GFW (Great Firewall of China) has blocked all Google services, including Google Scholar, which is essential to research. If you think this is unacceptable, we request that ...

This Communist Party slogan was heavily used during the Cultural Revolution, an era in which citizens were incentivized to spy on and even falsely accuse family and neighbors of being disloyal to ...

温州文成县不仅要求各单位确保电信诈骗“零发案”，若党团员被骗的，不仅自身要接受处罚，所属支部还要被取消评优评先资格。你们不去追讨被骗财产，不去抓诈骗分子，却将被骗的按在地上打上几板子，这种反诈手段真是闻所未闻，令人啼笑皆非。

政策鼓励权威媒体优先传播，这是为了避免谣言先行，不让违法违规、误导群众的信息和行为占上风。但当平台在商业关系、用户投诉、传播流量之间权衡时，红V不再是优先，而成了“高风险内容”。