Chinese social media users fear IP address surveillance


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|EDITOR:| Being a notable Twitter user, Tesla-founder Elon Musk is naturally less active on Chinese social media Weibo , in which he has nearly 2 million followers. And when Weibo started to display users’ locations based on their internet protocol (IP) address at the end of April, some were amused to note that according to the platform, Elon Musk is shown to be in Beijing, while Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is in China’s Henan Province. One possible explanation is that their Weibo accounts are run on their behalf by social media managers based in China. However, that is not the...