China’s central government has cracked down on press freedom as the country expands its international influence, but in the internet age, many of its citizens hunger for a free flow of information.

China’s ruling Communist Party is using artificial intelligence to turbocharge the surveillance and control of its 1.4 billion citizens, with the technology reaching further into daily life, ...

The rapid development of AI has triggered controversy surrounding copyright and big data in most parts of the world. In China, the trend of automated censorship is more worrisome, as it enables the ...

CDT presents a new monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we will publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the ...

In the global struggle for freedom, democracies do not have the luxury of squabbling among themselves. This is because a far greater, global censorship threat in the form of the Chinese Communist ...

As 2025 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding ...