Inside China’s digital war on information about COVID-19
Marketplace Tech
English - February 28, 2020 11:30 - 6 minutes - 11.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Host Molly Wood spoke with Marketplace’s China correspondent Jennifer Pak about China’s battle with its online information about the coronavirus. She says that in critical times, the country tends to slow down the internet, and in some way censor what is being shared online. Some people are able to bypass that censorship, she adds, by using homonyms to successfully post something.