Tencent's WeChat blocks Australian prime minister, lawmaker says, alleging Chinese government interference | South China Morning Post

The popular Chinese messaging application WeChat appears to have blocked access to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's account, leading one senator to call for a parliament-wide boycott of the service. Senator James Paterson, chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, said on Monday the prime minister's team had been having trouble accessing the WeChat account for months. It was finally taken out of the government's control in early January despite formal representations from Morrison's office, he told radio station 4BC. "My view is given that WeChat is such a closely controlled company by the Chinese Communist Party,…