JMSC in the news
2019
(14 October) South China Morning Post: Hong Kong protests and ‘fake news’: in the psychological war for hearts and minds, disinformation becomes a weapon used by both sides (King-wa Fu, Masato Kajimoto)
(12 September) OZY: China’s outsourcing its propaganda war against Hong Kong to online soldiers (King-wa Fu)
(10 September) South China Morning Post: China Daily newspaper criticised over claim Hong Kong protesters are planning 9/11 terror attack (Masato Kajimoto)
(10 September) South China Morning Post: Why China went on a global media blitz over the Hong Kong protests – and why it probably won’t work (Keith B. Richburg)
(4 September) Financial Times: Old messages, new memes: Beijing’s propaganda playbook on the Hong Kong protests (King-wa Fu)
(22 August) Reuters: ‘All the forces’: China’s global social media push over Hong Kong protests (King-wa Fu)
(21 August) BBC Chinese: 中美貿易戰和香港抗議中「神秘博主」的魅影 (Masato Kajimoto)
(20 August) NPR: How China uses Twitter and Facebook to share disinformation about Hong Kong (King-wa Fu)
(16 August) South China Morning Post: Hong Kong protests put Chinese state media’s drive to win over an international audience to the test (Masato Kajimoto)
(16 August) CNBC: Social media has become a battleground in Hong Kong’s protests (King-wa Fu)
(16 August) CBC: How Beijing wages its media assault on the credibility of the Hong Kong protesters (Masato Kajimoto)
(15 August) BBC Chinese: 香港示威：內地輿論攻勢高漲，助力港府並爭取民意 (Masato Kajimoto)
(14 August) Washington Post: After airport mayhem, Hong Kong protesters face tipping point in battle for hearts and minds (King-wa Fu)
(14 August) World Politics Review: Hong Kong’s beleaguered protestors struggle to win the war of narratives (King-wa Fu)
(11 August) CNN: Hong Kong isn’t just battling on the streets: There is also a war on misinformation online (Masato Kajimoto)
(11 August) The Jakarta Post: Stop Hoax Indonesia program to educate internet users in 17 cities (Masato Kajimoto)
(25 July) AFP: Fake news war divides, confuses in Hong Kong
(11 July) Poynter: Misinformation amid Hong Kong protests: A Q&A with a researcher on the ground
(4 July) RTHK: Hong Kong Today (Radio interview with Masato Kajimoto)
(2 July) The Sydney Morning Herald: ‘A complete trap’: Police move in after Hong Kong protesters storm Legislative Council
(11 June) Quartz: US-China trade tensions have hit a business news app backed by China’s “Rupert Murdoch”
(10 June) South China Morning Post: China’s internet censor shuts financial news aggregator wallstreetcn.com amid worsening US relations over trade and tech
(9 June) SBS News: More than a million protest in Hong Kong over extradition laws
(5 June) Al Jazeera: Massive crowds at Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil on 30th anniversary
(4 June) 10 daily: Thirty years after Tiananmen survivors feel it’s their duty to speak out
(3 June) China Perspectives: 1989-2019: Perspectives on June 4th from Hong Kong
(3 June) 10 daily: Extradition battle looms on eve of Tiananmen massacre anniversary
(30 May) South China Morning Post: The art of getting Tiananmen Square crackdown onto Chinese social media, from a rock star to a line of rubber ducks
(30 May) Inkstone: The cat-and-mouse game of talking about Tiananmen in China
(30 May) Voice of America: China Cheers State TV Anchor in Face-Off with Fox
(25 May) University World News: Tiananmen Square a topic that still can’t be studied
(22 May) Apple Daily: Fax機破封鎖 Big Data抗「河蟹」 傅景華初心不變 (In Chinese. Interview with King-wa Fu.)
(16 May) Hong Kong Free Press: Journalist David Missal wins Human Rights Press award for HKFP video on rights lawyer Lin Qilei
(3 May) Financial Review: Judith Neilson’s $100m search for truth
(23 April) Global Ground: Tactics to fight disinformation in Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines and India
(17 April) TIME: The Tiananmen Massacre is one of China’s most censored topics. Here’s a look at what gets banned
(16 April) Hong Kong Free Press: Archive reveals scale of China’s Tiananmen Massacre blackout as netizens fight to evade censors
(16 April) Global Ground: Battle for the truth
(16 April) Quartz: Rubber ducks and tattoos: How China dodges censors to remember Tiananmen’s “Tank Man”
(15 April) The Stand News: 港大研究揭過千條涉八九六四微博帖文被刪 涉64、殺人、坦克、蠟燭俱一帖不留 (In Chinese. #64censored pics by Weiboscope featured.)
(14 April) Ming Pao: 港大學者：六四微博帖 7年刪千條 13％涉港遊行集會 傅景華料人手逐條查看 (In Chinese. Interview with King-wa Fu.)
(14 April) Ming Pao: 守護記憶達人Louisa Lim 在遺忘的過程中，打撈六四片段 (In Chinese. Interview with Louisa Lim.)
(1 April) Cambodian Center for Independent Media: An Interview with Dr. Masato Kajimoto: “Be a News Literate by Checking Your Facts”
(April) Mozilla Internet Health Report 2019: Tracking China’s censorship of news on WeChat
(22 March) Philippines News Agency: Quality journalism key to fighting fake news
(22 March) PTV News: Quality journalism key to fighting fake news
(21 March) PTV News: ASEAN workshop on fighting fake news opens in Bangkok
(7 March) Eleven Myanmar: Fake news threatens security, social order, democracy
(28 February) Nature: ‘Gene-edited babies’ is one of the most censored topics on Chinese social media
(27 February) The Straits Times: China seen to tighten Internet curbs, target more content
(25 February) Hong Kong Free Press: Censored on WeChat: As tensions in China-US trade conflict rose, so did WeChat censorship
(21 February) The Economist: Economic woes hurt Chinese journalists as much as censorship does
(20 February) ABC News: WeChat’s most censored topics in 2018 include US-China trade war, Huawei CFO arrest
(14 February) CNBC: WeChat’s most censored topics in 2018 include US-China trade war, Huawei CFO arrest: Report
(13 February) TIME: The U.S.-China trade war and #MeToo were among the most censored topics on China’s WeChat, report finds
(13 February) South China Morning Post: US-China trade war among most censored topics of 2018 on WeChat
(8 January) South China Morning Post: Out of character? Xi Jinping has a Mao Zedong-style signature
2018
(19 December) BuzzFeed News: Please welcome China’s WeChat to the #Resistance
(17 December) RTHK Radio 3: Is there a future for newspapers?
(16 December) PR Newswire: SOPA 2019 journalism awards open for entries; deadline Jan 24
(November) HKU Bulletin, Volume 20: China’s AI approach to information control
(13 November) South China Morning Post: ‘Winter has come’: Chinese social media stunned as nearly 10,000 accounts shut down
(9 November) South China Morning Post: British journalist Victor Mallet denied entry to Hong Kong as tourist
(9 November) Hong Kong Free Press: Senior Financial Times journalist Victor Mallet banned from entering Hong Kong
(6 November) South China Morning Post: More than a century of newsroom technology at SCMP: from the telegraph to live streaming of spacewalks
(2 November) The New York Times: Journalist’s Expulsion Casts Shadow on Hong Kong’s Future
(1 November) Libération: Chine Le «Global Times» table sur YouTube pour tacler l’Occident (In French. Interview with King-wa Fu.)
(30 October) South China Morning Post: Brits had their own take on press freedom
(25 October) Columbia Journalism Review: The erosion of Hong Kong’s free press
(19 October) World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe: 110th Global Health Histories seminar: Polio, immunization and universal health coverage
(16 October) Radio Free Asia: Debarring of Candidate, Visa Row Point to ‘Death’ of Hong Kong’s Freedoms
(8 October) The New York Times: Journalist’s Expulsion From Hong Kong ‘Sends a Chilling Message’
(8 October) CNN: ‘Chilling message’: Hong Kong refuses to explain FT journalist visa denial
(4 October) Radio Taiwan International: Eye on China: Fake news and a suicide
(28 September) The New York Times: China Censors Bad Economic News Amid Signs of Slower Growth
(27 September) BBC News: China #MeToo: Why one woman is being sued by the TV star she accused
(20 September) Radio Sputnik: ‘That really means about half of what US buys from China now has tariffs on’ – journalist
(24 August) Taipei Times: Highlight: China-Africa relations in context
(31 July) CNN: Rare two-day protest over China vaccine scandal reveals public anger
(25 July) South China Morning Post: China censors social media posts about vaccine scandal, monitor says, as tabloid suggests issue has been overblown
(24 July) Storyful: The Storyful Podcast: Cinnamon, Condoms and Copycat Dares
(14 July) South China Morning Post: Spike in online censorship as Liu Xiaobo tributes pour in
(23 June) Poynter: ICYMI: Here are all the notes you need from Global Fact 5
(8 June) ASEAN News: Q&A: ‘Accountability Separates Journalism from Everything Else’
(30 May). Poynter: How to fact-check politics in countries with no press freedom
(16 May) Asia One: SOPA announces 2018 journalism awards finalists
(8 May) Asian Correspondent: ‘Truth shall prevail’: Shell-shock after sale of Cambodia’s last independent paper
(8 May) Asia Sentinel: Duterte takes on the Filipino press
(7 May) Bangkok Post: Online safety for children is everyone’s responsibility
(3 May) Radio Free Asia: In China, state control of the media moves towards thought control
(18 April) South China Morning Post: How Hong Kong was Asia base for war photographers: exhibition shows their work from Vietnam, Korea and Sino-Japanese wars
(13 April) Inkstone: Photos of a scalded kindergartener enrage the Chinese internet
(11 April) Asia One: SOPA 2018 journalism awards see highest number of entries in 20 years
(16 March) Columbia Journalism Review: As China abolishes two-term limit, a siege on digital free speech
(14 March) The Splice Newsroom: How the University of Hong Kong is tracking China’s censorship of Weibo users
(11 March) The Globe and Mail: China steps up internet censorship of criticism of Xi Jinping
(9 March) NiemanLab: What do Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh have in common? They’re both flagged by Chinese censors
(5 March) HK01: 【2007年奧斯卡最佳紀錄片獎得主】楊紫燁促港府扶持紀錄片發展：它是一個地方的記憶載體 (In Chinese. Ruby Yang quoted.)
(1 March) Hong Kong Free Press: China’s stifling of presidential term limit debate amounts to most significant censorship in months, watchdog says
(14 February) Hong Kong Free Press: Hong Kong gov’t lagging behind in surveillance laws and routine disclosure, HKU researchers say
(9 February) South China Morning Post: New laws needed to cover content removal requests in Hong Kong, say transparency advocates
(17 January) Bloomberg News: Third HNA Unit halted from trading, pending ‘major matter’
(16 January) The Sydney Morning Herald: The silencing of Rappler, the Philippines’ most independent media voice
(14 January) Nikkei Asian Review: Public broadcasters in Asia under fire from all sides
(12 January) University World News : University leadership changes signal politicisation
(11 January) South China Morning Post: Liberty vs optimism: an East-West tussle over China’s future
(11 January) South China Morning Post: Sino-US relations and globalisation top the bill at China Conference in Hong Kong