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China censors strive to filter or erase details of mortgage protests

A traffic light is seen near a construction site of residential buildings in Shanghai, China July 20, 2022. REUTERS/Aly Song

As China grapples to contain a mortgage boycott that has triggered rare protests, censors have gone into overdrive with social media messages blocked, videos of demonstrations wiped and key word searches coming up blank.

Censors are scrambling to filter or erase details of angry homebuyers threatening to stop paying mortgages on hundreds of unfinished housing projects, as regulators seek to reassure residents that everything will be taken care of.

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