A Weibo supervisor was exposed for wrongfully censoring citizens

Originally published on Global Voices

A screenshot from a Weibo supervisor’s monthly report. The slogan says: ‘collective supervision to clean up Weibo’.

‘Why am I being censored?’ Many Chinese citizens have shared this question online after receiving a notification from administrators of online platforms including Weibo, WeChat and Douban, informing them that their content has been flagged as harmful or illegal and has been removed.…