A WeChat logo is displayed on a mobile phone as a woman walks past as she talks on her mobile phone at a taxi rank in this picture illustration taken July 21, 2016. Picture taken July 21, 2016. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/Illustration
BEIJING: China’s hugely popular social media app WeChat operates different censorship systems for Chinese- and overseas-based users, a research group found, applying the Communist country’s rules to mainland-registered accounts even when their owners are abroad.
WeChat, known as Weixin in China, is the world’s fourth most popular social media platform, according to the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, with 806 million monthly active users.
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