Inside China’s digital war on information about COVID-19

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Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood

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Host Molly Wood spoke with Marketplace’s China correspondent Jennifer Pak about China’s battle with its online information about the coronavirus. She says that in critical times, the country tends to slow down the internet, and in some way censor what is being shared online. Some people are able to bypass that censorship, she adds, by using homonyms to successfully post something.