Plus: WeChat now has 1.04 billion monthly active users, shortform video is booming, and a few other significant numbers out of a recent report on the state of the Chinese internet landscape.
“What I’m trying to figure out is, what are the proxies for deeper engagement — what are the proxies for repeated use and habituation in a place like this?…Readers are not going to read 100 Australia stories. So what’s the right mix?”
With its new verticals Abacus and Inkstone and another on the way, the century-old newspaper is trying to use Alibaba money to build products that both reach a global audience and feel mobile-native.
They’re just a few of countless names, codewords, memes, and phrases that have been blocked. Weiboscope, a project out of the University of Hong Kong, since 2011 has tracked deleted posts on Weibo, collecting a substantial dataset of the types of terms and content that triggers censors.
“We saw lots of interest in AI in China, and the sector is moving so fast in the country…The U.S. still has the best AI talent, but there are many good engineers and AI researchers in China as well.”
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Owen, Laura Hazard. "China’s government now demands news sites must “verify” news from social media before reporting it." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 5 Jul. 2016. Web. 24 Mar. 2023.
APA
Owen, L. (2016, Jul. 5). China’s government now demands news sites must “verify” news from social media before reporting it. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 24, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/07/chinas-government-now-demands-news-sites-must-verify-news-from-social-media-before-reporting-it/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "China’s government now demands news sites must “verify” news from social media before reporting it." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified July 5, 2016. Accessed March 24, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/07/chinas-government-now-demands-news-sites-must-verify-news-from-social-media-before-reporting-it/.
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