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"WeChat is the massively dominant Chinese social media app (plus commerce, plus
a lot more), but unlike other apps from China, like TikTok, it has mostly
focused on the Chinese market, rather than markets overseas. Nonetheless, it
has apparently huge popularity in Australia (which has a large Chinese ex-pat
community). As it grew more popular, it's no surprising that Australian
politicians began using the service — even though in order to sign up for an
account, you're supposed to be a Chinese citizen. Still, politicians such as
Prime Minister Scott Morrison signed up for an account raising some concerns
domestically — though they were mostly dismissed by Morrision and his allies.
This was true even after WeChat took down a post by Morrison that criticized a
Chinese official.
Of course, things got a lot more interesting when Morrison's WeChat account
recently... was somehow taken over by a new account called "Australian-Chinese
New Life" and locked out Morrison and his staff from using the account."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
