{"id":933,"date":"2016-12-11T19:55:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T19:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/?p=933"},"modified":"2016-12-11T19:56:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T19:56:04","slug":"ny-times-facebook-said-to-create-censorship-tool-to-get-back-into-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/2016\/12\/11\/ny-times-facebook-said-to-create-censorship-tool-to-get-back-into-china\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times: Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Mark Zuckerberg, <a class=\"meta-org\" title=\"More information about Facebook Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/topic\/company\/facebook-inc?inline=nyt-org\">Facebook<\/a>\u2019s chief executive, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/projects\/cp\/reporters-notebook\/xi-jinping-visit\/a-chat-in-chinese-with-mark-zuckerberg-as-tech-giants-jostle-for-facetime\">cultivated relationships with China\u2019s leaders<\/a>, including President Xi Jinping. He has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/19\/world\/asia\/mark-zuckerberg-jogging-beijing-smog.html\">paid multiple visits<\/a> to the country to meet its top internet executives. He has made an effort to <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/23\/zuckerberg-speaking-chinese-shows-up-at-beijing-forum\/\">learn Mandarin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Inside Facebook, the work to enter China runs far deeper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">The social network has quietly developed software to suppress posts from appearing in people\u2019s news feeds in specific geographic areas, according to three current and former Facebook employees, who asked for anonymity because the tool is confidential. The feature was created to help Facebook get into China, a market where the social network has been blocked, these people said. Mr. Zuckerberg has supported and defended the effort, the people added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">For more, visit this NY Times link: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/22\/technology\/facebook-censorship-tool-china.html?smid=fb-share&amp;_r=0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook\u2019s chief executive, has cultivated relationships with China\u2019s leaders, including President Xi Jinping. He has paid multiple visits to the country to meet its top internet executives. He has made an effort to learn Mandarin. Inside Facebook, the work to enter China runs far deeper. The social network has quietly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[295525],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erpings-writings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}