Tencent reportedly spied content posted by foreign users of messaging app WeChat to refine censorship at home
R Sinduja
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Chinese internet giant Tencent has reportedly spied the content posted by foreign users on WeChat to help refine censorship on its platform at home. WeChat is the most popular messaging app in China with over 1 billion users globally. Surveillance and censorship of social media and messaging platforms in China is mundane. Often, firms running such services remove or block content that offends Beijing.
