the COVID 'truth-tellers' and political dissent | #socialmedia | #cybersecurity | #infosecurity | #hacker

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan in early 2020, one focus of international reporting has been the Chinese authorities' handling of the story. The BBC, CNN, the New York Times, AP, among others, have investigated the attempt to construct an official narrative of the pandemic domestically and internationally. These reports cite a number of Chinese whistleblowers - citizen journalists and archivists who save and republish articles deleted from websites and social media by the government - who have tried to expose the government's campaign of censorship over the outbreak in Wuhan. Though rapidly suppressed, these "COVID truth-tellers"…