“We need the truth,” said one post on Weibo, a leading social media platform similar to X.
The ruling Communist Party has expanded information control since leader Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, seeing it as a way to prevent unrest. More and more topics, from negative news about the economy to LGBTQ+ identity, have become subject to some form of censorship. In the past half year, mass attacks — in which a person kills or injures multiple people with a vehicle or knife — appear to have been added to the list.
Some people in China are pushing back, complaining online in at least two cases in recent months after drivers hit pedestrians.
