Forbidden Feeds: Government Controls on Social Media in China is a report by PEN America that provides some insights into the development of censorship and surveillance of Social Media in China and its impacts. PEN America is a group that works to champion freedom of speech for writers. The report they have put together provides …
There is a considerable amount of evidence on the control and censorship of social media in China. On top of this there has long been suspected that there is a system of astroturfing, or the posting of large numbers of comments from fake accounts to direct online conversation. In China people hired to make these …