Chinese microblogging service Weibo deletes over 41,000 posts for ‘creating trouble’ during Beijing Winter Olympics, asks users to keep calm when commenting on the games

  • Weibo also banned 850 accounts from posting on its platform, as it further tightened oversight of user-generated content
  • Its action followed the online abuse heaped on Zhu Yi, the US-born figure skater who fell during her Winter Olympics debut for Team China on Sunday

Chinese microblogging platform Weibo urges its user to keep calm when commenting on the games during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Photo: Shutterstock
Chinese microblogging service Weibo has removed more than 41,000 posts related to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, while banning 850 accounts, as the popular social media platform encouraged internet users to stay calm as they watched the games.

Some internet users are “creating trouble” at a time when the whole country is “immersed in the strong atmosphere of the Winter Olympics”, Weibo said in a post published on Tuesday. “[These users] attacked athletes with irony and insulting language and spread false information … we encourage internet users to watch the competition in a calm mood.”

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