WeChat ‘tears off mask,’ overseas Chinese urge Chinese people abandon the app

 

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A large number of overseas WeChat users received a notification on September 6, asking permission for WeChat to send users’ personal information back to a server in China. Scholars have called on Western lawmakers to block WeChat. Although WeChat is ostensibly divided into an international version and a domestic version, it is only to dispel accusations of breaking the law in foreign countries and it has never ceased to act as a thug in the CCP’s speech censoring.