Why Chinese TikTok is being accused of deleting Tibetan content

The image on the left shows a Tibetan social media user who asks, in Mandarin, why Tibetans can no longer publish content in their language on Douyin, the Chinese counterpart of TikTok. The image on the right shows another Tibetan Youga Ga, asking the same question. Both of these videos were removed from Douyin, but an NGO republished them on X and YouTube, which cannot be accessed in China. © Douyin, TCHRD

It’s not new for the Chinese Communist Party to censor any social media content about Tibet that has a political bent. However, in recent weeks, Tibetan users of Douyin, China’s TikTok equivalent, have said that any and all content in the Tibetan language is being censored, whether it is political or not. We spoke to a Tibetan woman in exile who also works for an NGO fighting to defend the human rights of Tibetans.