The University of Toronto’s online security watchdog, Citizen Lab, revealed that Tencent’s social-media app, WeChat, secretly monitors content generated by users outside of China. The content is then used to bolster censorship within China. The research group conducted experiments where they created politically sensitive Chinese images and sent them between Canadian-registered WeChat users in a...
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