Terms critical of China's government, information tied to the spread of the disease and references to the handling of the situation have been included in a keyword blacklist.
COVID-19, which is a respiratory disease caused by a new form of coronavirus, has now resulted in more than 93,000 confirmed infections and 3,100 deaths globally.
"Our findings show that information on COVID-19 is being tightly controlled on Chinese social media," the researchers wrote in the report published Tuesday, which spanned between January 1 and February 15."Censorship of COVID-19 content started at early stages of the outbreak and continued to expand blocking a wide range of speech, from criticism of the government to officially sanctioned facts and information.
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