How does China Fact Check survive the rigorous censors in China | Digging to China.

How does China Fact Check survive the rigorous censors in China | Digging to China.

In early 2020, just months into the coronavirus pandemic, the internet in China was flooded with fake international news about the disease. Blogs and internet chat groups were spreading rumors such as Covid-19 patients in the United States were killing themselves en masse and Russia's health minister had confirmed that the Covid 19 was a synthetic virus. Wei Xing, a 42-year-old journalist in Shanghai decided to fight back. He teamed up with dozens of volunteers to launch independent non-profit China Fact Check in August that year. They targeted international "news" on mainland Chinese social networks, hoping to stop misinformation before it could really take hold. Connect with me: Email: [email protected] Twitter:   / digging2c   Parler: https://parler.com/profile/DonXiang/p... Telegram Channel: https://t.me/DC2021303 Telegram Group: https://t.me/DC2021301 To subscribe: https://bit.ly/3pxKgoR