Chinese Social Media Blows Up With Celebratory Posts of Chloe Zhao's Oscar Win. Hours Later They're Almost All Erased

Matt Petit/Getty Images Chinese social media platforms are clamping down on references to Oscar-winning Nomadland Director Chloe Zhao. Posts about Zhao, who won an Oscar for best director on Sunday, immediately began emerging on Chinese social media websites and search engines, including Weibo, Baidu and Sogou. They were largely eliminated within a matter of hours, according to The Wall Street Journal's Liza Lin. The Chinese government had already made it a practice to