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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Mayank Aggarwal

‘Tell me loudly, what’s the date today?’: Chinese e-commerce app Xiaohongshu blocked after Tiananmen anniversary post

Photograph: ASSOCIATED PRESS

One of China’s most popular e-commerce sites has had its account on social media platform Weibo suspended after a post that appeared to reference the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Xiaohongshu, which translates as “Little Red Book”, has hundreds of millions of users and 14 million followers for its official account on Weibo. It is often described as offering users a mixture of the elements of Instagram and Amazon.

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