Online Chinese users get creative skirting censors over virus whistleblower

A man wearing a face mask working at a laptop in an upmarket shopping district in Beijing as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, China. In China, it is common for social media companies to scrub content considered politically sensitive, including protests and government criticism. — Reuters

BEIJING: Online users in China have adopted a range of creative measures – including screenshots, deliberate typos, PDF files and Morse code – to share a censored article on a whistleblowing doctor.

The report features an interview with a doctor in Wuhan, the epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak, who sounded an early alarm only to face disciplinary action.