Why Does China Allow Freer Social Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda
In this paper, we document basic facts regarding public debates about controversial political issues on Chinese social media. Our documentation is based on a dataset of 13.2 billion blog posts published on Sina Weibo—the most prominent Chinese microblogging platform—during the 2009–2013 period. Our primary finding is that a shockingly large number of posts on highly sensitive topics were published and circulated on social media. For instance, we find millions of posts discussing protests, and th
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ethics.ai (30 January 2017), “Why Does China Allow Freer Social Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda,” evidence record 8100, https://ethics.ai/record/8100 (originally published by OpenAlex).
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