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Kill the messenger

20 December 2019 By Pete Sweeney

The WeChat app, indispensable to life and business in the People’s Republic, is due unwanted foreign attention. Beijing uses the Tencent tool to influence and monitor users at home and abroad. Debate over restraining it will test democracies’ commitment to free information flow.

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