Are Public Opinions More Openly Expressed on WeChat?

• In Event: JSS SESSION: Censorship and Media Control in China

Brief Overview

Using the discussion of the 2018 vaccine scandal as a test case, I compare 100,000 public account articles from WeChat and 50,000 comments from Weibo. I find the perceived openness of WeChat leads to a different form of political expression.

Author

• Yuehong Tai, University of Iowa