Tibetan social media platforms challenge Chinese govt amid suppression

Despite the attempts by the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to curb freedom of expression, right to information, association and religion in Tibet, there has been a rise in domestic social media giving platform to voices challenging the government-sponsored news.

The CCP censors the internet and maintains intensive surveillance apparatus in the form of facial recognition technology and Global Positioning System (GPS) coordination in its occupied territories including Tibet, East Turkistan (Xinjiang), and Southern Mongolian (Inner Mongolia), reported The Taiwan Times.

With the aim to control the “digital ecosystem”, the social media accounts linked to the CCP propaganda campaign is being used to spread disinformation on social media such as Twitter, Facebook, etc.