While the world is awakening to the threat of TikTok, WeChat is another Chinese social media platform that is infiltrating and monitoring a huge population of Chinese people overseas.
Lydia Liu is a Chinese American who found herself becoming a victim of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) censorship through WeChat, a Chinese-owned social media video-sharing app.
She founded the MoshangUSA account as a source of news and commentary about life in America for Chinese Americans. She had been careful about the CCP’s so-called “red line,” and the official account she registered on WeChat only covered issues related to America….