China’s social media giants remove ‘inappropriate’ Ukraine content

China’s social media giants Weibo and Douyin removed ‘inappropriate’ Ukraine content over the weekend. Chinese social media giant Weibo has taken down over 4,000 posts that were showing any ‘inappropriate’ Ukrainian content. Douyin has removed over 3,500 videos that were vulgar, unfriendly, or trivialised the war. WeChat urged users ‘to keep an objective and rational attitude toward hot-button global issues, be reasonable when participating in discussions, and together preserve a clean and bright cyber environment.’