A more thorough analysis of 150 censored posts reveals that rumors, speculation, and political commentary were also being censored.Further analysis of larger WeChat corpuses might be performed to deduce what other keywords trigger a post to be held for further review and/or denied publication. Examples include 六四 (June 4), 太子党 (princeling), and keywords relating to Falun Gong. The data contains evidence of automatic review filters preventing posts with certain blacklisted keywords from being published.Political keywords and keywords related to corruption are particularly likely to be found in censored posts as compared to uncensored posts. Not surprisingly, sensitive keywords are found in a greater percentage of censored posts than normal (uncensored) posts.We downloaded over 36,000 unique public account posts between Jun 2014-March 2015, monitoring them over time and tracking whether they were deleted from WeChat. This report offers the first attempt to systematically identify what is censored on this platform.This platform is similar in some ways to Weibo and has recently been the target of official scrutiny.In addition to its core chat functionality, it also has a blogging feature known as the public accounts or official accounts platform (微信公众平台). WeChat (known as Weixin in China) is a mobile application developed by China’s Tencent.
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