Social media account of China’s Xiaohongshu goes dark after Tiananmen anniversary post

A social media account for popular Chinese e-commerce site Xiaohongshu, or “Little Red Book,” was unavailable on Sunday, after it issued a post on Friday, the anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square, a highly sensitive date in China.

The Friday post on its account on China’s Twitter-like Weibo said, “Tell me loud: what’s the date today?”, according to a screenshot seen by Reuters. That post was quickly deleted by Xiaohongshu, according to a person familiar with the matter, who declined to be named given its sensitivity.

A Weibo search for Xiaohongshu’s official account yielded no results on Sunday, although its own app appeared to be functioning normally.