WeChat wants people to use its video platform. So they did, for digital protests.
Published Date: 4/24/2022
Source: technologyreview.com
On the night of April 22, millions of people in China watched the same video on their phones: a six-minute montage of audio clips from the covid-19 lockdown in Shanghai, titled “The Voice of April.” Its emphasis on the lockdown’s human toll struck a chord, and people shared it widely on WeChat and other messaging…