Chinese Americans say they feel "targeted" by Trump's WeChat ban. For many in the Chinese American community, WeChat is their only tether to friends and family both in the U.S. and thousands of miles ...

Forwarding obscene content to contacts on platforms such as WeChat is illegal, and group chat administrators may face criminal liability if they allow the spread of pornographic material, under ...

CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message ...

TL;DR: WeChat messages and conversations are not encrypted end-to-end, meaning the app's servers can decrypt and read every message. However, users of the popular messaging app might be concerned to ...

Discussions on China’s most ubiquitous social media platform provide a unique window in Chinese public perceptions of the tariffs. In April, U.S. President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on nearly ...

Screenshots circulated on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, showing how WeChat accounts run by university LGBTQ groups went dark on July 7.