No ‘Negative’ News: How China Censored the Coronavirus

Thousands of internal directives and reports reveal how Chinese officials stage-managed what appeared online in the early days of the outbreak

The New York Times

Dec 22, 2020·10 min read

Illustration: Adam Maida for ProPublica/The New York Times

Illustration: Adam Maida for ProPublica/The New York Times

By Raymond Zhong, Paul Mozur, Jeff Kao and Aaron Krolik

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