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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 8:12 am
2 An organized archiving of reports
In a country familiar with changing historical events after the fact, the urgency of “ preserving this collective memory ” is growing. Groups of “volunteer archivists” are forming inside and outside the Great Digital Firewall. These Internet users – students, translators, researchers – retrieve articles, reports and content from Chinese networks before they are deleted. They re-upload them on uncensored platforms ( GitHub , Google or Internet Archive) in order to reach an international audience. “If the evidence disappears, we will not be able to demand accountability,” writes journalist and archivist Shen Lu.
3 Citizen journalism
There is also a proliferation of citizen gambling data greece journalists, who take it upon themselves to expose some truths about the pandemic. These “self-media” ( zi meiti in Chinese ) go to Wuhan to shoot reports “without spreading rumors or hiding the truth.” They investigate behind the scenes in makeshift hospitals , underground parking lots , or simply on the street , questioned by people quarantined in buildings. The three best-known “self-media”—Chen Qiushi, Fang Bin, and Li Zehua—post on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to escape censors. But after a few weeks, they stop posting (they are probably detained by the government).
Source: Li Zehua, a citizen journalist who has conducted investigations in Wuhan
Censorship in China can be a way to combat disinformation about the virus. New online censorship regulations – which came into effect on March 1 – target sensationalist content that disrupts public order as well as content that opposes state ideology. But the silencing of whistleblowers has led to widespread distrust of the authorities. As the Chinese state cracks down on journalists’ freedom of expression, disinformation – including conspiracy theories – risks filling the vacuum left by journalists.
Note: To be continued under #Wewantfreedomofexpression (in Chinese, #我们要言论自由).
Photo credit: Kenny Zhang – UnsplashStray links: coronavirus and confinement, the media adapt
In a country familiar with changing historical events after the fact, the urgency of “ preserving this collective memory ” is growing. Groups of “volunteer archivists” are forming inside and outside the Great Digital Firewall. These Internet users – students, translators, researchers – retrieve articles, reports and content from Chinese networks before they are deleted. They re-upload them on uncensored platforms ( GitHub , Google or Internet Archive) in order to reach an international audience. “If the evidence disappears, we will not be able to demand accountability,” writes journalist and archivist Shen Lu.
3 Citizen journalism
There is also a proliferation of citizen gambling data greece journalists, who take it upon themselves to expose some truths about the pandemic. These “self-media” ( zi meiti in Chinese ) go to Wuhan to shoot reports “without spreading rumors or hiding the truth.” They investigate behind the scenes in makeshift hospitals , underground parking lots , or simply on the street , questioned by people quarantined in buildings. The three best-known “self-media”—Chen Qiushi, Fang Bin, and Li Zehua—post on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to escape censors. But after a few weeks, they stop posting (they are probably detained by the government).
Source: Li Zehua, a citizen journalist who has conducted investigations in Wuhan
Censorship in China can be a way to combat disinformation about the virus. New online censorship regulations – which came into effect on March 1 – target sensationalist content that disrupts public order as well as content that opposes state ideology. But the silencing of whistleblowers has led to widespread distrust of the authorities. As the Chinese state cracks down on journalists’ freedom of expression, disinformation – including conspiracy theories – risks filling the vacuum left by journalists.
Note: To be continued under #Wewantfreedomofexpression (in Chinese, #我们要言论自由).
Photo credit: Kenny Zhang – UnsplashStray links: coronavirus and confinement, the media adapt