{"id":62003,"date":"2022-02-24T09:27:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62003"},"modified":"2022-02-24T09:27:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:27:01","slug":"chinese-state-media-accidentally-releases-censorship-rules-on-russia-ukraine-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62003","title":{"rendered":"Chinese State Media Accidentally Releases Censorship Rules on Russia\u2013Ukraine Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chinese State Media Accidentally Releases Censorship Rules on Russia\u2013Ukraine Coverage<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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A soon-deleted social media post\u2014released to the public apparently by accident\u2014provides a rare glimpse of how the CCP\u2019s messaging on the escalating\u00a0Ukraine<\/a>–Russia<\/a>\u00a0tension is channeled to the masses.<\/p>\n

Horizon News, a video news network under state-run Beijing News, on Feb. 22 instructed staff to avoid posting any Ukraine-related content on China\u2019s Twitter-like Weibo that may come across as unfavorable to Russia or pro-Western.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me review your draft before you first put it out,\u201d stated the Weibo post, which has since been removed. Commentaries, it added, must be \u201ccarefully selected and controlled,\u201d while topic selections should follow the lead of People\u2019s Daily, Xinhua, and CCTV\u2014three of the country\u2019s foremost Party mouthpieces.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever publishes them will be held responsible,\u201d the post stated, noting that each post should be monitored for at least two days.<\/p>\n

Although China is well-known for its tight restrictions on press freedom, the post provides a rare, if small, revelation into the workings of Chinese media machinery and the inner anxieties of the regime as politically fraught international developments unfold.<\/p>\n

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