Instead users can download a twin app, Douyin, which was also developed by Bytedance. In 2017, WeChat unveiled plans for virtual ID cards that would be recognized by the state.Īlthough video-sharing app TikTok was developed by Chinese company Bytedance, it is not available in China. WeChat has a monopoly on user data, including mini-apps to pay bills, book doctors appointments and file police reports. The app has been subsidized by the government since its creation in 2011, and is obliged to share users’ data with the state. WeChat, a multi-purpose messaging system developed by Tencent, is the widely used alternative in China. Meta’s messaging platform Whatsapp and its photo- and video-sharing app Instagram are also blocked. China’s restriction of foreign media platforms and censorship of non-governmental material has been dubbed the Great Firewall of China. Meta-owned Facebook and Twitter have been blocked in China since 2009, as part of a government crackdown against activists following deadly riots in Xinjiang province. While Nigerians can now access Twitter without using a virtual private network (VPN), a number of other countries continue to block access to mainstream social media sites. Months before the ban, Twitter chose Ghana as the location of its first African office, overlooking the continent’s biggest market, Nigeria. 13 after it secured Twitter’s commitment to opening a local office, appointing a head for its business in the country and paying domestic taxes.
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