Threads has become a Chinese speaking haven for users from mainland, Taiwan and HK alike -- reminds me of early days Clubhouse! Viola Zhou 's new story takes a look at how Taiwanese youth or using it to mobilize for the protest against the parliament reform.

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New “trail walking” route to Australia is being developed and circulated on Douyin, as the migration route to the U.S. become heavily censored after it cMe under spotlight

Scoop: GPT4o has a data pollution problem: its longest Chinese tokens are almost entirely (>90%) about porn and gambling spam, likely due to insufficient data cleaning. But it could lead to tricking the model to hallucinate or generate unsafe answers. technologyreview.com/2024/05/17/109…

Exhibit 2 in therapy, but with Chinese characteristics. New story by Viola Zhou restofworld.org/2024/china-dou…

need Chōng Liú 刘翀 to study this 🥺

Spent the last three months hanging out in the most bizarre rooms in New York City for GQ Magazine.

(@danielvriley thank you for being patient with me and being a brilliant editor!)

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so happy for Nilesh Christopher!! always an inspiration

(1) How did coverage of China change after NYT/Wapo/WSJ journalists were expelled in March 2020? Slight changes, but largely resilient — new paper with Jennifer Pan in @journal_of_communication about how news outlets remained flexible to maintain consistent coverage (link at end)

'When Chinese software engineer Ben joined TikTok’s San Jose office in 2023, he felt as if he had entered a workplace back in his home country. All but a handful in his 100-strong team were Chinese nationals.'
Caiwei Chen Viola Zhou
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Keeping an eye on Chinese e-commerce apps: AliExpress is more popular than Amazon in Mexico now.

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It's incrwasingly clear that Caiwei Chen and Viola Zhou (now with Joanna Chiu) do some of the most amazing coverage related to China. Read it all! Every piece is a home run that links culture, politics, geography, and tech in a seamless fashion Rest of World is lucky to have them!