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2026-11-11
On November 11, in the top-ranked lobby of the "Random Skyblock Survival" multiplayer map in NetEase's Minecraft, a large number of political criticism books appeared, documenting the June 4th crackdown, the White Paper Movement, and demands for Xi Jinping to step down.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-11
On November 11, a netizen in Anhui accidentally clicked an ad link while using Mango TV. They received a phone call from the police demanding they go to the station to clear a 'warning,' and their phone was thoroughly inspected by officers for 25 minutes.
Location: Anhui · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-11
On November 11, a virtual musician released an AI single titled "I Don't Understand Working" on Douyin, and the comment section was flooded with requests for the artist to perform on the Spring Festival Gala.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-10
On November 10, a netizen posted that they had a dispute with a JD.com courier in the Dalian Development Zone. Six months later, during the Qingming Festival, they received funeral items ordered and sent by the courier. After reporting it to the police, the courier continued to send threatening text messages. JD.com customer service asked for understanding, citing the courier's family difficulties, and the courier was only suspended for training and continued to deliver packages.
Location: Dalian · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-10
On November 10, thousands of comments appeared under a Douyin video related to human trafficking, with many netizens sharing their own experiences or those of people around them who had been trafficked.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-10
On November 10, a netizen in Shandong posted a video claiming that while waiting in a long queue at an Agricultural Bank of China branch, they attempted to submit a complaint letter, only to find that the suggestion box slot was extremely narrow and appeared to be sealed from the inside, making it impossible to insert any paper.
Location: Shandong · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-09
On November 9, a netizen posted that they were fired the day after leaving a negative review of their factory employer on Amap, and were forced to sign a resignation letter. The companies involved are Jiangsu Hongji Metal Products Co., Ltd. and Hongji Weiye (Suzhou) Auto Parts Co., Ltd. The factory identified the account that left the review by checking employees' phones and refused to settle wages in person.
Location: Suzhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-08
On November 8, a disabled resident in Jinjiang, Quanzhou, Fujian Province posted videos for several consecutive days stating that they could not cook because the gas company refused to deliver gas, forcing them to eat instant noodles for days in protest. Complaints have not received an effective response to date.
Location: Quanzhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-08
On November 8, a netizen posted a video on Douyin showing several workers using wooden poles to carry an 1,800-jin elevator main unit for Tenglong Cave on their shoulders, with some of them having gray hair. After the video sparked heated discussion, it was removed by the platform. Netizens left comments questioning why the working people only get to be censored.
Location: Lichuan, Hubei · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-07
On November 7, Bilibili creators epcdiy and Bian Liang released videos claiming that after Xiaomi's "AI Call Warning" is enabled and authorized, the phone will record about 3 seconds of screen footage during WeChat and QQ video calls, encrypt and upload it to the cloud to determine if it involves fraud, and continue recording after about 2 seconds if no risk is detected; this feature is disabled by default.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-06
On November 6, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi exposed that a scrap yard in Xiaowanglou Village, Huaidian Town, Shenqiu County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province, was suspected of controlling three intellectually disabled individuals for over a decade, forcing them into hard labor without pay, withholding food if they failed to work, and subjecting them to physical abuse. One of the victims remains unidentified. Shangguan questioned why previous reports had not been investigated.
Location: Zhoukou, Henan · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-06
Recently, a netizen posted that a motorcycle taxi driver with a speech disability sought help, discovering that his account had been automatically deducted approximately 200 yuan per month by "Shuidi Insurance Brokerage" without his knowledge for about five years, totaling over 10,000 yuan.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-06
On November 6, a netizen in Henan posted multiple videos alleging that China Chemical Engineering Third Construction Co., Ltd. is in arrears and refusing to pay workers' wages at the Baotou Xinte Silicon project in Inner Mongolia; the netizen discovered they had been blocked after sending messages demanding payment to the company's official account.
Location: Baotou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-06
On November 6, another employee of Xigao Bus posted that they discovered their medical insurance had been suspended while seeking medical treatment. The company had returned multiple employees to third-party labor agencies without prior notice, leaving the employee and their colleagues unable to work normally, and they are calling for relevant departments to intervene.
Location: Xi'an · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-06
On November 6, a netizen in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, posted a video of the unfinished Dongfudian Xincun project, stating that the project was originally marketed as providing wedding homes for older youth, but it has remained unfinished for 16 years. Many buildings are still in a rough state with exposed brick walls and no doors or windows installed.
Location: Qinhuangdao · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-05
Recently, multiple posts appeared on the Wuhan University Baidu Tieba accusing Liu Yizhen, Class of '25 at Wuhan University School of Business, of assisting Myanmar telecom scam compounds in money laundering and scam traffic generation, involving a 400,000 yuan ransom. Other netizens exposed that she graduated from Wuhan University in 2025 and previously served as a counselor at Wuhan Business University.
Location: Wuhan · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-05
On November 5, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi relayed the investigation feedback from Taicang authorities: the doctors in the underground surrogacy operating room were retirees, the nurses were freelancers, and the anesthesiologist was from a private medical institution who obtained anesthesia drugs through fraudulent prescriptions. When asked for the names of the involved institutions, Taicang authorities stated it was inconvenient to disclose them.
Location: Taicang · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-05
Recently, JD.com delivery riders posted online claiming that for some 'charity orders' on the platform, the rider's delivery income is displayed as 0 yuan, yet merchants are still required to pay delivery fees to the platform.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-05
On the evening of November 5, Cao Jun, a student of Bai Baoguo, confirmed to the media that the suicide note circulating online was indeed written by Bai Baoguo himself and was released with the authorization of his family. Multiple teachers anonymously confirmed that the practice of self-funding and managing accounts through personal channels is relatively common.
Location: Yan'an · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-04
A netizen submitted a report stating that their younger brother, who works at a Luxshare-ICT workshop in Anhui, was kicked by a line leader for being too slow at work and was verbally threatened with physical assault after his shift. The netizen questioned the company's basic respect for its employees.
Location: Anhui · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-04
User Cyberxinfang posted a submission stating that Chinese petitioners waiting at Jiujingzhuang are served only ham, pickled mustard greens, and steamed buns for all three meals a day. Any leftovers are taken out of the center, and the situation for petitioners has worsened following the implementation of new petitioning regulations.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-04
On November 4, multiple merchants posted videos stating that sales representatives from Dongpeng Beverage's "Bushuila" brand visited small supermarkets and shops across various regions, manually using new stickers to cover the image of Kylian Mbappe on the bottle labels, sparking dissatisfaction in the comments section from netizens.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-04
On November 4, a blogger posted a video claiming that while riding a motorcycle on a highway at night, the phone's navigation frequently and automatically jumped to third-party ad pages like JD.com due to normal vehicle vibrations, making it difficult to close and sparking heated discussion among netizens.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-03
On November 3, a netizen posted a video stating that iQiyi densely displayed scrolling bullet-screen ads marked with advertising labels in a grid pattern on official drama playback screens. The author remarked that this was an "exclusive official watermark" and "the last time supporting official versions," which sparked mockery among netizens.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-02
On November 2, a netizen posted that the China Unicom 'SystemHelper' program, pre-installed on phones from brands including Xiaomi, OPPO, vivo, Samsung, OnePlus, and Realme, can collect information on app installation and usage, data traffic, and device identification. This reporting can be triggered even when using a non-Unicom SIM card, and the program reportedly does not check whether the user has consented to the privacy policy.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-02
During the Singles' Day period, a frontline employee at JD.com's Asia No. 1 warehouse posted that after finishing work at 11:40 PM on October 30, they had to clock in again at 6:00 AM the next morning. On October 31, they worked from 6:00 AM to 11:30 PM, a span of 17.5 hours, with no food available upon arrival.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-02
On November 2, netizens posted an exposé revealing that Nanjing University recently implemented a "smart classroom system." The system uses classroom cameras to monitor and record attendance rates, late arrivals, and student attentiveness (head-up rates) in real-time. Some teachers have notified students that these attendance data will affect their daily grades and could even lead to the cancellation of exam eligibility, sparking questioning and anger among the students.
Location: Nanjing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-02
On November 2, Shangguan Zhengyi posted that the local authorities had confirmed the report was true. However, more than ten days have passed, and there is still no report on which units the doctors, anesthesiologists, and nurses came from, or where the anesthetic drugs were obtained. He is demanding that this information be made public.
Location: Changsha County · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-02
On November 2, the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, Reporters Without Borders released its 2026 list of Predators of Press Freedom based on the World Press Freedom Index, naming those responsible for the regression of press freedom.
Location: France · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-01
On November 1, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi reported that an underground operating room and laboratory for a surrogacy agency had been hidden in a rural courtyard in Guoyuan Town, Changsha County, Hunan Province. He claimed it had existed for nearly 10 years, operating daily from 5:30 AM to 8:30 AM, using unlicensed vehicles to transport medical staff and surrogates after body searches, and demanded a thorough investigation into the source of the medical staff and the origin of the anesthetic drugs.
Location: Changsha County · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-01
Recently, a netizen posted that Starbucks is strictly checking surveillance footage to find faults and issue warning notices to employees, questioning whether the company intends to cancel the 13th and 14th-month salaries. Some in the comments section claimed that these warning notices would affect the 13th and 14th-month salaries as well as performance-based pay raises.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-11-01
Netizens submitted reports claiming that in the online voting for the 12th 'Innovation Cup' National Future Aircraft Design Competition in 2026, the organizing committee gave the green light to 'children of officials' and 'children of doctors,' with rampant cheating. They also questioned whether many entries were AI-generated. The elementary school team project 'Wings of Deep Space' is leading the popularity chart with 5,618 votes.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-31
Recently, a Douyin user posted that 500.04 yuan in their WeBank digital RMB wallet could not be transferred back to their bank card. After calling customer service with no answer, netizens in the comments section questioned whether digital RMB can be frozen at will.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-31
On October 31, 'Xiaoxiao Xu,' a young man from Zhaotong, Yunnan, invited netizens to his wedding under the theme of an 'orphan's wedding.' Netizens from across the country attended and promoted the event, which was praised by Xinhua News Agency, Shenzhen TV, and others. After the wedding, netizens compared his content to that of influencer Daidai, questioning whether the wedding was team-planned and casting doubt on his claim of being an orphan.
Location: Zhaotong, Yunnan · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-30
On October 30, a Meituan delivery rider posted a video of an on-site reconciliation with a merchant: for a 279-yuan order, the rider's delivery fee was only 3 yuan, while the merchant's backend showed a deduction of 35.69 yuan for delivery service fees, with the actual amount received being about 205 yuan. Netizens questioned the platform for taking cuts from both sides.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-30
On October 30, the state media outlet ZJSTV released a video naming Suntory, Kao, Subaru, and their collaboration or sponsorship relationship with the Japanese drama "VIVANT," accusing these brands of earning money in China while sponsoring a Japanese drama that distorts history.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-30
On October 30, Guo Yi posted a video stating that he had received a 300,000 yuan settlement and issued a letter of forgiveness, adding that he would donate the entire amount to stray animal rescue organizations. He said his lawyer informed him that the court might only assess the loss based on property value, making compensation for emotional distress uncertain, so accepting the settlement was a helpless decision.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-29
On October 29, German blogger Fabienne Hevenna, who has long defended China, posted a long article on X, claiming that she was besieged for opposing the extreme nationalist remarks of some major influencers, reported to her university, boycotted from cultural activities, and had taken psychiatric medication for three months.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-29
On October 29, Li Yuchen published a compilation of 38 past WeChat Official Account articles written by the late anti-fraud influencer “Huijian” (real name Wu Kai) before his death. None of the main texts could be opened, and 18 of them showed as “deleted by the publisher.” These articles had previously named and exposed scam compounds, companies, and specific individuals, down to the office door numbers of specific companies in KK Park. According to the second-instance judgment, Wu Kai was forced to delete the articles after being abducted.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-29
On October 29, a netizen posted a video accusing the Hulunbuir Army Border Defense Force border project (Heimeng project), for which the CSCEC Sixth Division is the general contractor, of long-term wage arrears for migrant workers since construction began in 2020. The project has long been completed, but workers have repeatedly failed to receive their pay and are now speaking out online, pleading with the competent authorities to supervise the matter.
Location: Hulunbuir · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-29
On October 29, netizens posted a video claiming that the comment section of a promotional video for Huawei's AITO car was flooded with suspected bot accounts. Multiple accounts with different avatars and nicknames all posted the same photo of a "hand wearing a green bracelet" on their homepages. Netizens in the comment section mocked this as "the passing of the winning army."
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-28
A video by influencer Fengge on Bilibili showing Beijing's Majuqiao bottom-tier day laborers and their harsh living conditions quickly surpassed 3 million views, after which he was reportedly taken away by police during a livestream.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-28
On October 28, a woman wearing a Meiyijia convenience store uniform posted a video stating that she had received notice from the company to remove all "Bushuila" drinks endorsed by Kylian Mbappé from the store, and that the Mbappé portraits on the drinks in some stores had been cut out.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-28
On October 28, the medical internship variety show "The Exciting Offer 8" on Tencent Video did not update at the originally scheduled time of 12:00 PM. Tencent customer service replied to a reporter from Qianjiang Video that the update was postponed due to scheduling adjustments, and the specific time would be subject to subsequent official announcements.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-27
Jiemian News reported on October 27 that blogger “Hui Jian” Wu Kai, who long exposed the inside story of telecommunications fraud in northern Myanmar and Cambodia, was abducted, beaten, and killed in China in November 2024.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-27
On October 27, a netizen submitted via [Niuma.ICU] to expose that Shenzhen Deshengyuan Technology Co., Ltd. requires 6 workdays per week and 12 hours per day, that the workshop has only fans with temperatures exceeding 30 degrees, that no social insurance or housing provident fund is paid, and that wages are not paid on time.
Location: Shenzhen · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-27
Around October 27, commentator Li Chengpeng wrote on X, “Mbappé just played a dictator meme; this kind of thing is too common in the US and Europe.”
Location: 海外 · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-26
A traffic accident victim in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang posted online asking for help, saying the vehicle that hit them fled the scene, the police did not retrieve surveillance footage, and the community refused to issue the certificate needed for surgery, leaving them with nowhere to turn.
Location: Mudanjiang · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-26
A netizen's submission claims that Jiangxi Dongfang Chemical and Glass Equipment Co., Ltd. requires early starts and late finishes, employees must stay at the company during the midday break, alternating one- and two-day weekends are in place with no annual leave, and on single-rest weeks, makeup workdays for public holidays mean working more than ten days in a row.
Location: Jiangxi · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-25
A blogger posted a video saying an elderly woman scanned the QR code to charge her electric scooter and paid, but the charge wouldn't start, so she asked him for help. The blogger demonstrated on site: scanning the charging pile's QR code first pops up an ad, and clicking it redirects to a Mango TV membership promotion page; the woman mistook the ad's payment entry for the charging payment entry.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-25
On October 25, a netizen in Jiangsu went to Xuzhou Second Hospital for treatment and found that the doctor directly used the AI app "Doubao" to prescribe medication for patients, sparking heated discussion among netizens in the comments section about AI misdiagnosis and reliability issues.
Location: Xuzhou, Jiangsu · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-25
On October 25, a netizen posted a video saying they went to an aid station in Kunming, Yunnan to seek help. After showing their ID card, they were questioned by staff about their intentions. Their request for winter clothes and food was refused with "There's no food, and we don't have clothes yet," and they received no supplies at all.
Location: Kunming, Yunnan · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-25
On October 25, police determined that Ma, the village party secretary of Luoyi Village, Luliang County, had threatened the personal safety of others and fined him 600 yuan. However, the penalty notice listed his workplace as "none"; the town government confirmed that he concurrently serves as the village secretary and village director.
Location: Qujing own content archive. · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-24
Around October 24, netizens posted multiple sets of comparison images, claiming that the doll character "Lime," created by Chinese illustrator Slimes in 2019, plagiarized the early design of Wirt, the protagonist of the American animated series Over the Garden Wall. Slimes responded that it was fan art drawn while at work.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-24
A user on X revealed that after refusing to cooperate and criticizing a certain creator for spreading propaganda content, Kimi AI again sent a private message asking them to delete their comment; the user refused and expressed anger.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-24
On October 24, Mr. Hu, an environmental blogger in Qujing, Yunnan, stated that after he exposed pollution issues in Luoyi Village, Luliang County, he received a threatening call from someone claiming to be a villager, who threatened that he would "die right here." After reporting it to the police, he learned that the caller was the village Party secretary, surnamed Ma.
Location: Qujing own content archive. · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-23
A netizen submitted a report to @Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher, claiming that Wanquan Security deducts 50 yuan for being 1 minute late, that overtime on weekends and workdays has become routine, and that working after hours and on holidays is the norm, yet statutory overtime pay is never paid.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-22
On October 22, progress was made in the case in which a blogger went undercover to expose the black market in child sexual exploitation; the related case has been officially filed and an investigation launched.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-22
A netizen submission claims that China Telecom's Pengjiang District branch in Jiangmen City almost every weekend runs promotional activities, with leaders forcing employees to go out and set up stalls, and that there will be no days off for the 2026 Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day.
Location: Jiangmen · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-22
A Bilibili user asked about social insurance and housing fund contributions, wages, and leave in a comment under a promotional video by "Tea Factory Eldest Princess" in June this year. The user then released a video raising doubts based on the company's publicly available insurance enrollment data, but it was taken down following an infringement complaint. Several follow-up posts were locked, and the other party filed a complaint demanding that the platform take strict action, restrict uploads, or ban the account.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-22
On October 22, the netizen who posted the exposure video stated in the comments section that they had been asked to delete the video, adding "I'm going to disappear, brothers."
Location: Zhengzhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-22
On October 22, a netizen posted that their house was washed away in a flood, and that their homestead had been reallocated in the post-disaster reconstruction plan and designated as a public parking lot, making it impossible to rebuild on the original site. The comment section sparked heated discussion.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-22
On October 22, rapper "Yongxuan Dadi MulaSakee" accused Ma Degao (online name "Chengdu Sexy Grandpa") of unlawful detention and extortion during a livestream and on online platforms; Ma Degao struck back in a post, saying he had been caring for him and helping him quit drugs over the past month, while also exposing Sakee's drug-related penalty record.
Location: Chengdu · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-21
On October 21, a large number of netizens reported having their Moments features restricted, or even permanently banned, for posting sentences containing specific homophonic characters, such as "accustomed to the plain and uneventful days lately," in their WeChat Moments.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-21
A netizen submitted a post claiming that employees at China Post's Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province branch have received no overtime pay for decades, have often had wages deducted on the pretext of inspections, have been forced to buy third-party products at their own expense, and that leaders, in order to earn commissions, pressure employees into engaging in financial fraud.
Location: Tongchuan · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-21
On October 21, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi released a plea from a family, stating that the police have not opened a case more than a month after the report. He called on relevant departments in Guangdong to verify the labor compensation, whether forced labor exists, and the reasons for the man's departure from the recycling station.
Location: Meizhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-21
On October 21, a Douyin blogger with 550,000 followers posted a video saying that the Huawei smartwatch they purchased did not support standalone video calls, so they applied for a refund and returned it within less than 10 seconds of receiving it; the merchant refused the 960 yuan refund citing a scratched screen and sent the item back, and their earlier complaint video was taken down.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-21
On October 21, several workers involved in a marine ecological restoration project in Yingkou, Liaoning, publicly filed a real-name report against the contractor, China Communications Construction Port & Waterway Bureau, for withholding their wages for five months, saying that after repeated complaints the relevant leaders kept passing the buck, so they publicly called on netizens to share the post and push for a resolution.
Location: Yingkou, Liaoning · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-21
On October 21, staff from Fujian Medical University responded, saying that Li Ziqi's not doing clinical work during his PhD was a misunderstanding caused by improper wording, and that he had completed 18 months of clinical rotations.
Location: Fuzhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-21
On October 21, a netizen in Jiangsu opened the Bank of Jiangsu App and was hit with 14 consecutive pop-up ads. After screenshots were posted online, complaints about the flood of ads in banking apps erupted.
Location: Jiangsu · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-20
According to Clash Report, Israeli police arrested 10 settlers in the West Bank.此前, these masked settlers had attacked a Washington Post photojournalist and assaulted a European diplomatic convoy. The arrests came after the United States and European countries pressured the Israeli government to take action against settler violence.
Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-20
On October 20, the person involved in the "lymph meat" incident at the canteen of Guangdong Jinmai Group posted that after more than a month of rights defense, they had received the company's decision to terminate the canteen contractor's contract, expressed satisfaction with the result, and received likes and support from many netizens.
Location: Guangdong · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-19
According to videos and remarks posted by X user @clashreport, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, when talking about Britain, publicly criticized that today's Britain is called "Islamized Britain," that 3,000 Britons have been brought to court for posting tweets and other remarks online, and that a considerable number of them have been imprisoned as a result.
Importance III · Verification: Developing · View causal chain →
2026-10-19
A woman recalled on Douyin that she used to do piece-rate work at JD Logistics, working 18 hours a day, six days a week with one day off, earning over 5000 yuan a month; coworkers still worked while injured but were mocked for being slow. After she left the job, she was attacked by netizens for talking about this experience online.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-19
On October 19, a netizen in Jiangmen, Guangdong posted a video claiming that Yishan Technology Group Co., Ltd. forced employees to recite slogans at a morning meeting on the factory playground shortly after 7 a.m. Netizens in the comments complained that it took up rest time and joked about it being a "Northern Myanmar branch."
Location: Jiangmen · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-19
On October 19, a Meituan dedicated delivery rider posted his 27th rights defense video on Bilibili, saying that after 6 years of working as a dedicated rider no entity had paid social insurance for him, and that for nearly 5 years he had been registered as an individual business owner. The app shows that his labor contract has been approved but cannot be opened. The case is scheduled to be heard at the Tinghu District Court in Yancheng on October 28; at the last hearing the contractor failed to appear.
Location: Yancheng · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-18
According to a Voice of Hope report, Hu Xijin recently wrote a post addressing the pension issue, claiming that ordinary Chinese people will not rely on the authorities when it comes to old-age support. The remarks sparked strong dissatisfaction among netizens, who criticized him for ignoring the social anxiety caused by the pension pool running dry and an aging population, arguing that his words were shifting responsibility onto the authorities, and accusing him of flattering those above while bullying those below, with no empathy for the survival struggles of ordinary people.
Importance III · Verification: Developing · View causal chain →
2026-10-18
According to X account @clashreport, Bessent noted in his comments that European countries are still funding Russia's war machine. He drew a comparison, saying that the United States imports about $4 billion worth of Russian products each year, of which $1.8 billion is fertilizer, while European countries' imports are more than ten times that of the United States.
Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-18
On October 18, a netizen in Guangdong posted a video and screenshots of group chats exposing that a Huawei offline store required sales staff who failed to meet targets to do 50 push-ups or squats and to film themselves for feedback in the work group. A netizen in Xinjiang said local stores did the same.
Location: Guangdong · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-18
On October 18, CCTV's Focus Report (Jiaodian Fangtan) reported that Xiaomakou Village in Dongguang County, Cangzhou, Hebei, with a population of only six or seven hundred, has 8 companies storing blended hazardous chemicals — 5 without licenses and 3 severely exceeding permitted quantities, standards, and scope — with some plants separated from residential houses by only a single wall. Villagers say 7 of the companies belong to brothers of the village Party secretary and 1 to the village head.
Location: Cangzhou, Hebei · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-18
In the early hours of October 18, a female guest checked into the Milo River View High-Altitude Hotel in Hubei and discovered a staircase leading to an equipment room hidden behind a painting in her room. The hotel front desk claimed the stairs led to a room housing water heaters, promised a full refund of the room fee, and requested that the guest delete her related posts.
Location: Hubei · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-17
On October 17, Economic Daily published an article explicitly criticizing Dongchedi, questioning whether it has a conflict of interest by both conducting reviews and making money from advertising.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-17
At 10:00 a.m. Beijing time on October 17, 2026, X user @QuanLujun posted a video claiming that Chinese chengguan (urban management officers) violently beat an elderly woman who had been buying vegetables and was already lying on the ground. The video shows an intense clash at the scene and has drawn attention. This incident reflects the violence that exists in the course of chengguan law enforcement as well as social tensions.
Importance III · Verification: Developing · View causal chain →
2026-10-17
On October 17, a netizen in Changchun, Jilin, posted a video claiming that the Xintiandi Huawei service center had ruined his phone screen so it could no longer display. Unable to contact anyone to settle the account, he brought a number of workers wearing orange reflective vests into the store to sit down and demand an explanation, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
Location: Changchun · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-16
Douyin influencer “Crazy Little Yang Ge” had previously been suspended from streaming for two years over fraud, and his originally planned return on September 20 was abruptly halted by the Cyberspace Administration of China. On October 16, Little Yang Ge and his brother deregistered their original Douyin accounts, issuing statements and resuming streaming under the new IDs “Qingyang” and “Kaiyang” respectively. According to the Twitter user @GFWfrog, a large number of accounts impersonating “Qingyang” have already appeared on the Douyin platform.
Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-16
A blogger who exposed Qingdao's "recruitment-turned-training" trap revealed that after posting the video, he received calls from relevant departments demanding post deletion, saying it would have a bad impact on Qingdao. The blogger refused and said he was almost punished.
Location: Qingdao · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-16
On October 16, Xinhua News Agency released a popular-science poster on railway train schedule adjustments labeled "Xinhua Authoritative Quick Look." Detection screenshots show it was generated by an OpenAI tool, credited to Fan Xi and produced by the Domestic Department, and no AI-generated notice appeared on the page.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-16
A netizen whose IP address shows Malaysia posted a video claiming that downloading a fake digital wallet app from Huawei's official store resulted in 170,000 USDT being stolen, pointing to a lack of review in Huawei's app store, with scammers paying to list fake software and buying up search rankings.
Location: Malaysia · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-16
On October 16, a woman in Shanghai posted a video claiming that she received no response when seeking help from online customer service on the China Railway website, and that the satisfaction rating system could only be submitted by checking "Satisfied," sparking online discussion.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-16
On October 16, lawyer Cai Yaqi read a viewer's letter on Bilibili. The writer identified himself as a frontline labor law enforcement officer in Shandong, saying that a boss owing unpaid wages had shouted, "What do these workers count as?" The local labor inspection team was abolished during institutional reform, has no authorized staffing and cannot recruit new staff, and the governance of wage arrears actually serves a stability-maintenance function.
Location: Shandong · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-15
Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs made public remarks, pointing out that the current efforts to counter the propaganda Russia spreads everywhere are insufficient, and warning that modern social media combined with new artificial intelligence technology are easily influencing people's minds. He also mentioned that Ukraine attacked three Yandex centers, which drew attention and discussion on social media.
Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-15
On October 15, Douyin blogger "Changchang Changduan" posted an undercover investigation video exposing a dark web app involving child sexual exploitation, saying it had formed a profit chain of secretly filming and sexually assaulting one's own daughter and selling the videos, with sections including paid videos and trades of date-rape drugs, and stating that the evidence had been submitted to the police in a real-name report; the video received about 212,000 likes within 12 hours of being posted.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-15
Xiaohongshu blogger "Xinyang XY," who has 46,000 followers, fed the works of Korean artist bunnymate to AI without authorization and distilled them into a skill. bunnymate posted on Threads to defend their rights, saying they never gave authorization, and, being a minor student unable to access Chinese websites, asked netizens to help spread the word. Netizens who questioned the infringement had their comments deleted and were blocked by the blogger.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-15
On October 15, a netizen posted that the Hubei Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security had launched the "Sheyin Loan" service as early as June 19, 2025, drawing attention.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-15
On October 15, Xiaohongshu users noticed that Xinhua News Agency had reposted a video of Zheng Qinwen's China Open title-winning interview from Guancha.cn, without retaining the watermark of the original interviewing outlet VOGUE or noting the original source.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-15
On October 15, Chinese media outlet Gangu Rongmei posted a video titled "Coffee Robot Goes Live," showing a robot creating latte art. Taiwanese netizens compared the footage and found that it appeared to be a stolen original work by a Taiwanese latte artist that had been altered with AI, with obvious suspicious details such as no reflection on the metal on the robot's chest. The Taiwanese latte artist has come forward to accuse the outlet of unauthorized theft and alteration of her work.
Location: Gangu County · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-15
On October 15, the Victoria's Secret employee whose earlier request for leave to accompany her cancer-stricken mother to surgery had been denied posted on Xiaohongshu that she had already resigned, with no negotiation and no compensation, while the store manager remains in post. Her mother was diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer after the surgery, the targeted drugs are unaffordable, and she was unable to enroll in treatment because she did not meet the criteria.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-14
According to Radio France Internationale, Russia has accused a Japanese journalist of espionage and arrested him.
Importance III · Verification: Developing · View causal chain →
2026-10-14
On October 14, according to a report by Modern Express, Li, director of the Education and Sports Bureau of Leibo County, Liangshan, Sichuan, has been transferred from his post. The county Education and Sports Bureau said the investigation is still ongoing, while the Liangshan Prefecture Education and Sports Bureau said the investigation and handling have been completed and the results will be released in accordance with regulations.
Location: Leibo County, Liangshan Prefecture · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-10-14
Recently, a top Weibo influencer posted that while using Didi ride-hailing, they were induced by the platform into opening a microloan, and only found out a month later; there was no obvious prompt when it was opened, screenshots were blocked on the payment page, and canceling the service required providing an ID card number and a phone number.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-14
On October 14, a netizen posted a video exposing that the Hefei BYD Phase IV factory appeared to have closed off relevant entrances and exits to prevent employees from eating outside the factory. Employees were unable to ride electric bikes in and out on their own and were forced to eat at the factory canteen. Netizens said factories in Taizhou, Xi'an, Shaoxing, Xixian and other places were the same.
Location: Hefei · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-14
On October 14, a Xiaohongshu blogger posted that an account whose bio lists them as a senior consultant for Xiamen Haicang Stelato and Stelato Enjoyment had repeatedly left death threats in comments such as "I'll run you over and then crush you back and forth." The poster identified the account as Lin, a salesperson at the Hongmeng Zhixing Xiamen Haicang Nanhai Third Road User Center.
Location: Xiamen · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-13
The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have suspended the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)'s FM broadcast service across the country on the grounds of "multiple violations," without disclosing the specific details of the violations. The BBC said that millions of Afghans rely on its news service and that it is currently in talks with the Taliban authorities over the matter. The ban remains in effect.
Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-13
A netizen submission claims that Guangdong Zhuokewei Technology Co., Ltd. signed training contracts with schools without holding training qualifications, having students assemble machines and do projects for free, with daily working hours exceeding 12 hours.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-13
On October 13, a Bilibili creator aggregated data on personnel from 214 government agencies and public institutions in a western county, finding 8,098 active employees and 3,609 retirees, totaling 11,707 people. 2025 fiscal documents show the county's general public budget revenue is approximately 129 million yuan, with expenditures of about 4.056 billion yuan, and subsidies from central, provincial, and municipal governments totaling about 3.545 billion yuan. The creator did not name the county to continue the series, but the document mentions the Mizhi County Public Security Bureau.
Location: Mizhi County · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-12
Recently, netizens found that SheerID, Google's third-party student identity verification platform, lists Taiwan separately in its country options. After selecting Taiwan, users can search for universities in mainland China and Hong Kong, and can upload a student status certificate from CHSI to complete student identity verification.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-12
On October 10, a blogger posted a video showing a Huawei AITO SUV losing a wheel and mocking the incident. On October 12, the blogger's homepage showed no visible works.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-12
In June 2023, the first batch of owners who had ordered the AITO M9 posted under their real names, saying that when the battery level dropped from 20% to 19%, the vehicle automatically switched from four-wheel drive to rear-wheel drive, causing it to drift and smash up the front of the car; customer service replied "if there are no casualties, we cannot connect you with management." He also listed problems such as rusting of the main beam and detached radar, and pointed out that the legal department deleted posts and banned accounts.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-12
On October 12, according to Cover News, an aquarium hobbyist in Shandong said that a power outage caused by a Wolde smart power strip killed all the marine fish in the tank, with losses exceeding 20,000 yuan. Customer service was only willing to send a replacement socket, saying "if you don't accept it, go sue."
Location: Shandong · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen posted that China Unicom had used their information to open 30 mobile SIM cards without their knowledge or authorization; after discovering this, China Unicom's Jilin Changchun branch canceled and transferred the relevant phone cards in the person's absence.
Location: Changchun · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-12
On October 12, the Fengbang sub-center of the Jiangqiao Town Community Health Service Center in Jiading, Shanghai, was exposed for having excessively high service counters, with an elderly person kneeling on one knee to communicate with staff. Staff said there was no need to bend down or squat, claiming it was an old campus that had been in use for decades.
Location: 上海市嘉定区 · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-12
On October 12, a family member of an employee at the Rugao branch of the Agricultural Bank of China posted a video harshly criticizing the bank for excessive overtime, saying the employee works 336 days a year with no time off on holidays, and questioning the bank's corporate culture. That night, the bank president and other leaders came to their door late at night for a "four-party talk," and the family member stated they would not delete the video.
Location: 如皋市 · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-12
On October 12, the author of the WeChat public account CroWall posted again, saying that their Claude account was banned in the early hours of the 11th, that they suspected they had been subjected to entrapment, and explaining that removing sensitive words was done to avoid the app being taken down and the account being banned.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-12
On October 12, a Douyin user posted a video claiming that their child repeatedly tapped their Huawei children's smartwatch with no response, and calls from parents were not connected. Comments and bullet screens joked about a "Xuanwu freeze," while other users reported severe lagging on the same model of watch.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-11
On October 11, CCTV's "Financial Investigation" exposed that the vast majority of greenhouses in the Qian'an-Shouguang off-season vegetable demonstration zone in Songyuan, Jilin, have been idle for six years. The project illegally occupied nearly 1,000 mu of permanent basic farmland and received over 37 million yuan in subsidies, yet it remains a mere facade.
Location: Songyuan · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-11
On October 11, the Shaanxi Yan'an Stray Animal Rescue Charity Association posted on Weibo to report "Jinxing Loves Food" for livestreaming the slaughter of stray dogs and selling dog meat on Douyin, criticizing the platform for tolerating the spread of cruel and bloody footage.
Location: Yan'an · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-11
On October 11, staff at the Kanas scenic area in Xinjiang lured a stray little black dog with a ham sausage, looped a thin rope around its neck, dragged it violently and kicked it repeatedly, causing it to collapse from suffocation. Video from the scene has spread online.
Location: Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang · Importance II · Verification: Developing · View causal chain →
2026-10-11
On October 11, a blogger posted on Douyin a BYD work meal with a 15-yuan standard, saying the meat dish was leftovers from yesterday with more bones than meat, and the vegetable dish had no oil at all, captioned "Even less strength to hang myself after eating." Comments such as "Do they treat you like a dog?" appeared in the bullet screen.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-10
On October 10, netizens revealed that when makeup artist Simeng's team recruited assistants, it required applicants to first pay a 10,000 yuan deposit, which would only be refunded after two full years of full-time work.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-09
A netizen submission alleges that Fujian Xinshiying E-Commerce Co., Ltd. unjustly deducted performance pay and transportation and meal subsidies, paid wages below the minimum wage standard, made social insurance and housing fund contributions at a low base, failed to pay social insurance during the probation period, arbitrarily cancelled annual leave and frequently changed compensation rules unilaterally, and threatened employees with dismissal whenever they raised objections.
Location: Fujian · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-09
On October 9, a Weibo tech big V with 3.01 million followers revealed that the Dongchedi app was unable to properly play a review video of the Maextro V800's brake pedal, and was subsequently bombarded with a large number of spam text messages; netizens in the comments section said it was related to retaliation by Huawei fans.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-09
On October 9, a netizen suggested to the Central Steering Group that an online public opinion office be established to promptly collect and sort out key issues raised by the public online, forming mechanisms for reporting, forwarding, and feedback. One day after the video was posted, it received 242,000 likes, and the comment section and bullet comments showed netizens' support.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
On October 8, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi reported via Weibo that an underground surrogacy operating room was hidden inside a villa in Taicang, Jiangsu, saying he had gone undercover for nearly 4 months and that over 100 procedures were performed there every month. After the report, police questioned him about the source of his leads and stopped him from filming; when he went out to buy water, he was surrounded by several people and not allowed to leave. Local authorities said they had verified the matter at the first opportunity, while Shangguan Zhengyi questioned why health supervision personnel arrived about 100 minutes later than the police.
Location: Taicang · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
On October 8, People’s Daily published an article about Qilian County opening student dormitories to house tourists, arguing that it is difficult to conclude from the available information alone that the local authorities bullied students for the sake of tourists, while acknowledging that further explanation is still needed regarding the protection of students’ rights. The related topic trended on Weibo, with netizens asking whether county guesthouses and government dormitories are also used to receive tourists.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
Zheng Zhengbang, legal representative of Zhongshan Fuhe Municipal Construction Co., Ltd., publicly reported Bank of China Zhongshan Branch in his own name, claiming that he borrowed 400 million yuan but actually paid about 350 million yuan, and raised questions about invoices, consulting fees and credit records.
Location: Zhongshan, Guangdong · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
On October 8, a netizen interning at Haier in Beijing posted that they were dismissed by the company on the grounds of ensuring normal business operations during the Double 11 shopping festival after requesting a one-week remote internship because their father was undergoing chemotherapy. They said they had handled the entire team’s work alone before the National Day holiday and had completed all holiday tasks, and later said that HR had called their mother.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
On October 8, Dongjing News, run by Guizhou Radio and Television, posted a video on Bilibili claiming that online reports of plague cases in Russia were false news, and that in fact an employee of a Russian plague research institute had been diagnosed with pneumonia of unknown cause. In the comment section, netizens flooded the thread with sarcasm at the official debunking routine.
Location: Guizhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
On October 8, a netizen revealed that the ceilings and walls of wards in the inpatient building at the Xiashan Campus of Guangdong Medical University Affiliated Hospital in Guangdong were blackened over large areas and covered with mildew. The hospital confirmed the mold problem, saying it had transferred patients to normal wards.
Location: Zhanjiang · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-08
On October 8, a fan-support account announced that the originally planned 20-city birthday coffee events had been cancelled for special reasons, reminding fans not to organize any form of offline activities on their own.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-07
On October 7, Rao Yi discussed Japanese scientists winning Nobel Prizes on the WeChat public account "Rao Yi on Science," criticizing academic misconduct in China, saying that many institutions engage in cover-ups and use public power to defend fraudsters, wasting state funds and betraying their responsibility to the people.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-07
At 20:25 on October 7, the topic "Numerous Taiwan artists clearly state the one-China position" ranked 11th on Weibo's overall chart. State media outlet Southern Daily posted a compilation video, using Wu Qilong's "even if it doesn't make money, this is still my position" as a hook, and listed records of artists such as Angela Zhang and Ouyang Nana reposting CCTV's "Taiwan will surely return" poster; the Wenling City Media Convergence Center said that identifying with one China "is not a multiple-choice question, but a compulsory one."
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-07
On October 7, Jilin Provincial Party Secretary Huang Qiang chaired a symposium for internet celebrities at the Songyuan Café in Changchun, calling on influencers to study Xi Jinping's thought on building a cyber powerhouse, remain firm in the "four confidences," and promote the main theme, and asking publicity and cyberspace affairs departments to offer support, presenting attendees with books on the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army.
Location: Changchun · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-06
On October 6, official media outlets such as Kankan News and Baixing Guanzhu released videos claiming that China named and warned the UK, Australia, Japan and other countries for constantly putting on the airs of human rights preachers, saying they have no right to make irresponsible remarks about China, drawing sarcastic comments from netizens in the comment section.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-06
Red Star News previously reported that in the same dispute over the death of a cherry tree, self-media writer Li Guangjun was found by a court to have committed reputation infringement for publishing related articles and was ordered to pay 200,000 yuan in economic losses; the three articles involved totaled only 103 reads.
Location: Dalian · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-06
Hu Xijin posted a rebuttal to Lu Kewen, pointing out that his absolute description of those twenty years diverges greatly from common sense and the official narrative, and questioning his public denial of the era of rapid economic growth, accession to the WTO, and the first hosting of the Olympic Games; Lu Kewen responded that Hu was merely expressing personal views and called on netizens not to fan the flames.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-06
On October 6, the Global Times reported that lawyers explained that concerts with more than 1,000 attendees are large-scale mass events and require a safety permit to be applied for according to law; if the organizer allows someone to take the stage temporarily without authorization, it may constitute a violation of the approved event content, and audience members who force their way onto the stage may be punished under the Public Security Administration Punishments Law.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-05
A netizen submission claimed that Zhongshan Chuangmeng E-Commerce Co., Ltd. has daily working hours of up to 12 hours, with unpaid overtime and no days off throughout the year.
Location: Zhongshan · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-05
During the National Day holiday, The Paper conducted a live-streamed test at Fantawild Dream Kingdom in Wuhu, Anhui, and found that thrill rides with a height limit of 1.1 meters admitted toddlers under 90 cm tall, while young children could use in-park bear tickets to invite staff members to dance up close, with some children frightened into crying.
Location: Wuhu · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-05
After the report drew widespread attention, the management of Fantawild Dream Kingdom in Wuhu publicly apologized on October 5, saying it had launched a comprehensive inspection and rectification, would strictly regulate interactive procedures, and would prevent similar incidents from happening again.
Location: Wuhu · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-05
On October 5, a villager in Hebei posted that after discovering a fire, they asked in the villagers' WeChat group “Has anyone called 119?” and was immediately removed from the group by an administrator. In the comments section, some netizens shared experiences of being scolded by village cadres after calling the police, and being confronted at their homes after reporting the village committee for burning garbage.
Location: Hebei · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-05
On October 5, Weibo blogger "Digua Xiong Laoliu" posted asking whether Luo Yonghao should take down the Kevin Tsai interview video, triggering a subsequent wave of attacks.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-04
On October 1, the Mixue Bingcheng Luoyang flagship store's opening day revenue exceeded 1 million yuan. Recruitment information showed that part-time employees for morning, afternoon, and night shifts were paid 100 to 120 yuan, which equates to an hourly wage of about 12 yuan. This sparked heated discussion after being exposed by netizens on October 4.
Location: Luoyang, Henan · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-03
Hiker Mr. Sun posted a video angrily denouncing the 24-Bend scenic area for fencing off a wartime resistance relic to charge admission, sparking strong backlash from netizens. The local Qinglong County government held a meeting on October 3 and decided to waive the 60 yuan ticket for the viewing platform and exhibition hall area.
Location: Qinglong County · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-10-03
On October 3, Zheng Jiyan, a former employee of China Telecom, released a video in which he publicly accused several senior executives of the group of allegedly embezzling 38 million yuan in government funds in the National Industrial Internet Big Data Center project, saying that his internal reports since 2023 had gone nowhere and that his labor contract was terminated in August 2026. He questioned how a core software development contract signed just 13 days before the project deadline listed a workload of 33779 person-days, that all four bidding companies were wholly owned subsidiaries of China Telecom, and said he had submitted the report through the 12388 website and was willing to provide 18 items of original evidence. As of press time, China Telecom had not responded.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-03
On October 3, Xiaoxiang Morning Herald published an interview video with the painter of the national emblem at Tiananmen. The painter said the spray-painting pressure is high and not a single flaw is allowed, and he hopes the national emblem will hang on more government buildings. Netizens in the comments section mocked it heavily, and the video subsequently became unavailable.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-03
On October 3, a tourist posted a video on Douyin reporting that a section of tidal flats at Hua'ao Island, Xiangshan, Ningbo, Zhejiang, had been enclosed by fencing nets, with beachcombing inside the nets charged at 38 yuan per person, complaining that the sea was being fenced off and sold for money. On October 4, the Gaotang Island Township Government and the scenic area responded that the fencing nets were used for safety management and project operations, and that the beach along the shore remained open free of charge.
Location: Ningbo · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-03
On October 3, Knews published a video on Douyin reporting that a Chinese couple who had obtained Australian permanent residency died in a car crash in Australia; some netizens in the comments section demanded that "Chinese couple" be changed to "Australian couple".
Location: Australia · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-02
On October 2, Hong Kong’s “Courtline” and “Independent Media” reported that Tang Ho-wing, founder of the online media outlet “Explosion Head,” and dentist Lee Ying-chi were granted bail. Tang walked out of the Yau Ma Tei Police Station in the early hours of that day and left after thanking reporters. The two were arrested on September 30 in connection with an activity outside Prince Edward Station on August 31 and related reporting; the police investigation on suspicion of incitement is still ongoing, and bail does not mean the case has been dropped.
Location: Hong Kong · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-02
Several telecom industry workers and netizens in the comments section reported that the company mandated all staff to work without a single day off from October 1 to 7 during the National Day holiday, promoted services in residential communities, and paid no overtime; some employees even paid out of their own pockets to deliver broadband in order to meet their quotas.
Location: Hebei · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-02
On October 2, at the Urhe World Devil City scenic area in Karamay, Xinjiang, a shuttle bus bypassed the queue to pick up tourists from the back rows. A large crowd of tourists surrounded the bus, shouting for the queue-jumpers to get off. Even after police arrived, the driver still drove away. The scenic area later issued an apology, saying it had added vehicles and staff. Some of the videos exposing the incident were subsequently reported and taken down.
Location: Karamay · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-02
On October 2, residents of Shiping Village, Qiaotouhe Town, Lianyuan City, Hunan Province, reported that the public notice information for a 450,000 yuan vegetable base project construction payment in the village in 2023 did not match the actual project. The contract attached to the notice showed Longwan Village, and after the greenhouses were crushed by heavy snow that first winter, they have been abandoned ever since.
Location: Loudi, Hunan · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-02
On October 2, a labor-dispatch worker in Wangdu County, Hebei posted a video on Bilibili saying that he worked at the County Administrative Approval Bureau as a dispatched worker, was rated excellent by the Organization Department for his poverty-alleviation work in a village from 2019 to 2022, and was dismissed and had his medical insurance payments halted after being diagnosed with myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction. The 1245 hotline replied that his physical examination had not detected any related diseases, and described his village work as auxiliary work.
Location: Wangdu County · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10
A major incident recently occurred at a KTV in Zhejiang, prompting the Chinese Communist Party to conduct strict inspections of KTVs and other nightlife venues nationwide. Luxury KTVs in many places have shut down, and city governments have adopted one-size-fits-all policies in response.
Location: Zhejiang · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-01
On October 1, Hu Xijin published a National Day article praising China's achievements. Netizens found an AI prompt left at the end of the text: "Need me to read through the whole piece again and double-check for zero omissions." Hu Xijin then edited the original post and deleted comments in the comment section.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-01
Starting October 1, multiple media outlets including Sina Technology, Tencent News, Gamersky, and Kuai Technology reported that “CC Who Collects Phones” was smeared with a pornographic rumor and called the police. The reports said her video “Smeared With a Pornographic Rumor for 2 Months, I Called the Police” surpassed 3.21 million views and received 14,000 comments. According to the video she posted, the company’s legal department has assisted in collecting evidence.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-01
On October 1, netizens found that among the "most beautiful teachers" roundups for Zanhuang County, Wuji County, Pingshan, Zhao County, Xingtang, Hengshui, Handan and other places published by the WeChat Channels account "Weiwen Famous Teachers", run by a college admissions planning institution in Shijiazhuang, those selected were almost all principals. After being exposed, the account has set its homepage to private.
Location: Shijiazhuang · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-01
On October 1, a topic related to “Public Security University investigating report against Pei Yi’s husband” appeared on Weibo. Netizens alleged that associate professor at the Public Security University Hao Guankui is suspected of teaching under the name “Liu Wei” at institutions such as Hou Da Legal Exam, in possible violation of rules on outside employment. Online reports say the Public Security University has already launched an investigation.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10-01
On the evening of October 1, the Guilin Cultural Promotion Society issued a letter of apology, acknowledging that it had released a false announcement without verifying with the event organizer and the person involved; the Society's Cultural Tourism Innovation Working Committee confirmed that A Qiu serves as its deputy director, and that the event in question was a free public-benefit event.
Location: Guilin · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10
China Daily's Douyin account posted a 16-second video in which remarks by Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir were edited and translated to appear as a threat to kill Palestinian women and children, sparking outrage among Chinese netizens.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10
Netizens found the roughly 1-minute original video on foreign platforms and re-translated it, showing that Ben-Gvir was in fact accusing Palestinian prisoners of taking part in an attack that killed 48 people — a context completely opposite to the China Daily version.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10
A large number of netizens went to China Daily's Douyin account to leave comments mocking its out-of-context editing, and that evening China Daily took down the video.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10
A netizen who claims to have worked for the "Zhengzhou Gang" said that a Xiaohongshu operations team of about 500 people posts 6 pieces of content per person per day, publishing over 50,000 notes a month, with dedicated staff collecting popular templates for mass copying, and each viral note rewarded 500 yuan.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10
In October, a tweet by a Turkish netizen about the Uyghurs sparked a massive flame war between Chinese and Turkish netizens on X. The Chinese side counterattacked with the Patrick Star national flag meme, while the Turkish side demanded that Chinese netizens criticize Xi Jinping and mocked them for spending money on VPNs to jump the Great Firewall and join the fight.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-10
In August 2026, a merchant successfully registered through Kuaishou's "0-yuan store opening" program after review, but received no orders. In October, the merchant received a penalty notice, fined 2,400 yuan and docked 24 points on the grounds of "evading business qualifications (personal safety)," prompting netizens to complain about the short-video e-commerce platform.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-30
On September 30, Tang Ho-wing, founder of the Hong Kong independent online media "Boom News - Afro," was arrested by the Hong Kong police on suspicion of "publishing false information to incite" on August 31, when he was reporting on a rally commemorating the anniversary of the 2019 crackdown on protests. The Hong Kong Journalists Association said he is the first journalist arrested on suspicion of incitement since the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance took effect, and Reporters Without Borders condemned the weaponization of national security procedures.
Location: Hong Kong · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-30
On September 30, China's Cyberspace Administration of China issued a notice launching a two-month special campaign focused on rectifying five types of short video misconduct: posing as vulnerable groups, fabricating professional qualifications, AI impersonation of people, attracting traffic through displays of wealth and superstition, and making up domestic violence and kidnapping storylines, while strictly prohibiting fake persona content from being pushed through rankings and recommendation slots.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-30
On September 30, Tang Ho-wing, founder of the Hong Kong internet media outlet “Explosion Head,” and dentist Lee Ying-chi were arrested in connection with an activity and reporting outside Prince Edward Station on August 31, with police launching an investigation on suspicion of incitement.
Location: Hong Kong · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-30
On September 30, 2026, internet user Ji Yichen published a post publicly raising four demands, specifically: requiring the Longhua Road Police Station to return the 12,000 yuan he was forced to pay; investigating the demolition compensation issue in Longsha District; demanding that the Fifth Company of China Railway 19th Bureau Group pay nearly 2 million yuan in project payments owed to his family; and restoring the reputation of his grandfather Ji Dexiang, a revolutionary army veteran. He stated that he does not want privileges, only fairness.
Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-30
On September 30, a netizen posted that their friend tried to send a drone out of Beijing via EMS through the government-designated channel, but it was rejected. EMS claimed the package was too large to ship, yet photos showed the drone was not of a particularly large size.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-30
On September 30, netizens exposed that Xingning No. 1 High School in Meizhou, Guangdong arranged intensive return-to-school self-study and exams during the National Day holiday, nominally two days off but actually amounting to only one day, and also exposed an internal recording of the school issuing a threatening ultimatum to students via broadcast.
Location: Meizhou, Guangdong · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-30
On September 30, the Guilin City Chinese Culture Promotion Society issued an announcement claiming that, after verification, it accused former CCTV host A Qiu of improperly using the names of CCTV and the Promotion Society to promote a paid event held in Guilin.
Location: Guilin · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-29
Netizen Cyberxinfang said that last year he received petition materials from Yanhu District, Yuncheng, Shanxi. The petitioner alleged that local gangsters colluded with government officials in the long-term gang rape of her granddaughter, and that she was threatened with lifetime imprisonment if she petitioned again. She has since gone missing, and he is now publicly soliciting information about the case.
Location: Yuncheng, Shanxi · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-29
Investigative reporter Liu Hu wrote on September 29 that Wang Yufeng, the whistleblower in the case of Huawel Microelectronics' illegal and non-compliant information disclosure, was taken away by Jilin police from Shanghai in November 2022 and has been detained for nearly four years. The case has entered the CSRC's proposed whistleblower reward list; as of September 23, the trial had lasted a cumulative 107 days, and several of Wang Yufeng's sealed companies have become substantively bankrupt.
Location: Jilin City · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-29
Under the name “Cyber Letters and Calls Bureau,” netizens released recent documentary footage of petitioners visiting a certain petition reception site, recording the scene of petitioners gathering to air their demands.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-29
A netizen submission claims that the machining workshop of Weifang Ruicheng Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has long-standing dust and noise problems, that some machine tools lack safety guards, that the supply of masks and earplugs is insufficient, and that equipment lacks regular maintenance.
Location: Weifang · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-29
On September 29, a netizen posted a video saying that their family's China Mobile account was charged overage data fees of 480.89 yuan, 540 yuan and 150 yuan in July, August and September respectively, totaling over 1,200 yuan. Customer service only agreed to refund half; the blogger has filed a formal appeal demanding a full refund, and the video has drawn widespread support from netizens.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-29
On the evening of September 29, a netizen posted a video showing a staff member at the Qingquange bun shop in Changsha, Hunan, clipping their toenails on the food preparation counter, with slippers placed on the countertop and steamers piled up nearby.
Location: Changsha · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-29
On September 29, the Weibo account “Xin Zhi Song Gu” was banned, showing the message “for being reported for violating laws and regulations and the relevant provisions of the Weibo Community Convention.” The ban prompted netizens to question the basis and legitimacy of the suspension.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-29
On September 29, a BYD owner posted a video on Douyin claiming that the hood shook while driving at high speed; an inspection found that all the screws on the hood latch assembly were missing, and several commenters who identified themselves as employees attributed the problem to two-shift rotations and the production pressure of low wages.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-28
Recently, netizens exposed that scalpers are selling blood donation certificates at Shanghai Hongkou No. 1 Hospital, with the scalpers themselves being family members of patients. Because the hospital is short of blood and cannot fulfill its promise of priority or free blood usage for donors and their relatives, the number of voluntary blood donors has declined, creating a vicious cycle.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-28
A Chengdu woman says she spent over 100,000 yuan at Tiffany on diamond jewelry; the salesperson gave the promised mooncakes to someone else, offering only about 20 yuan of loose peach cookies as compensation, which she refused. After she posted about it, the brand demanded post deletion; after she refused, her Xiaohongshu account was restricted from logging in and the original post was deleted.
Location: Chengdu · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-27
On September 27, a netizen reported that Yongji Electric Hospital, under the guise of "soliciting opinions," required internal staff to contribute funds to alleviate the financial pressure of constructing a new complex building. Department heads were required to contribute at least 80,000 yuan, deputy heads 60,000 yuan, and team leaders between 30,000 and 50,000 yuan.
Location: Yongji, Shanxi · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-27
A netizen submission claimed that after an employee refused to work overtime on Sunday, Shandong Zhikai Engineering Design unilaterally terminated its labor relationship with him; the date of the incident was not stated.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-27
On September 27, a journalist posted on Weibo regarding the incident of a scavenger elderly person in Hunan receiving 420,000 yuan in pension, pointing out that despite 40 to 50 years of farming labor, the pension is meager, and calling for at least 500 yuan per month, stating that if this goal is achieved starting from 2027, they are willing to donate half of their own pension.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-26
As of September 26, the "Xiuxiu Cha" mini-program shows that it has included 1,453 companies, 26 products, and 1,578 employee tags.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-26
On September 26, some netizens publicly compared the training materials corresponding to "Hao Guankui" and "Liu Wei," asking the People's Public Security University of China whether the two are the same person, and pointing out that he is suspected of teaching at a commercial bar exam institution under an alias.
Location: Beijing · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-25
Recently, Meituan handed out "Mid-Autumn Joy" gift boxes to employees and organized check-in photos; when delivery riders opened them, they found the boxes empty inside, and a netizen submitted a report exposing the incident.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-25
On September 25, during the Mid-Autumn Festival gala livestream on the Greater Bay Area TV's WeChat Channel, a large number of netizens flooded the comments section, speaking out about the "Wangwang" and "Jack Latiao" incidents and calling for animal protection.
Location: Guangzhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-25
After netizens flooded the screen with comments, the Greater Bay Area TV live stream pop-up window displayed "host has disabled comments" and shut down the comment function.
Location: Guangzhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-25
On September 25, the Huangpu Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau reported that a hospital had filed a report regarding rumors circulating online about an academician at the institution. Liu fabricated information claiming the academician had stolen others' research results and spread it across more than 50 groups, while Zhang used AI software to generate and publish a fake video. Both individuals have been criminally detained.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07
Ban Yue Tan, a publication under Xinhua News Agency, published an article acknowledging that news of officials being brought down is resold layer by layer within the system, forming a hidden black-and-gray industrial chain.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-09-24
As the White House briefing room was about to close, some Chinese journalists attempted to enter; on-site video shows them shoving with foreign journalists.
Location: Washington, United States · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-23
A district court ruled that media outlets like CNN and MSNBC can still return to the White House for the next 14 days, temporarily suspending the media ban previously implemented by the White House; Trump stated that he will appeal.
Location: 美国华盛顿特区 · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-23
Academic fraud-exposing blogger Geng Tongxue released a video pointing out that a rice immunity research paper, with Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University professor Wang Gang as co-first author, has problems including duplicated data, anomalous values, and repeated images; the corresponding author is Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher Wang Ertao.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-23
Employees of Shanghai Zuiqingfeng Health Technology Company revealed that the company sets high-difficulty question-bank assessments as performance indicators to maliciously lay off staff.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-23
On September 23, a parent from Jilin province posted a video of a school satisfaction survey. The survey requires users to fill in the student's ID number if they choose 'a little dissatisfied,' give a score of 9 or below, or believe the problem originates from the school. However, selecting 'very satisfied' or giving a score of 10 allows for direct submission. The video sparked heated discussion.
Location: Jilin · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-23
On September 23, a blogger released a video showcasing a WeChat mini program they developed called "Xiuxiucha," which allows employees to input their company's two-day weekend status and link it to products for public query.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-22
Employees exposed that China Comservice Guangxi Branch delayed wage payments and withheld performance bonuses, resulting in take-home pay as low as 200 yuan, while N+1 severance compensation was only about 1,000 yuan, triggering labor disputes.
Location: Nanning · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-22
Anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi discovered through investigations that some underground surrogacy agencies intentionally have surrogate mothers conceive twins and sell the surplus infants through human traffickers for about 160,000 RMB each.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-21
On June 30, multiple children at the affiliated kindergarten of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology experienced vomiting, and parents got no answers after pressing for two months. On September 14, a safety officer at the kindergarten's canteen exposed severe hygiene issues, such as washing shoes in vegetable washing pools and scrubbing woks with mops. The kindergarten had long ignored rectifications, and regulatory authorities failed to inspect the kitchen surveillance footage.
Location: Nanjing · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-21
An employee submission from Shanghai Gree Auto exposes that the company has a severe excessive overtime issue, and project site managers subject employees to verbal insults and sexual harassment.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-18
On Sep 18, netizens exposed chat logs showing a physics teacher at Dafang No. 2 Middle School in Bijie, Guizhou, sexually harassing a female student. The victim continued to be harassed after explicitly refusing, and has now reported the incident to the police. On Sep 19, the local police station, education bureau, and discipline inspection commission confirmed they have intervened in the investigation. The school stated that the teacher involved has been removed from his post.
Location: Bijie · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-21
Xinyi People's Hospital in Maoming, Guangdong Province, was exposed for tying interns' blood donation to a two-day holiday. After relevant complaints were posted online, the head of the hospital's education department demanded in a work group that school team leaders investigate the student who posted it, threatening that if they did not come forward voluntarily, the school would be contacted directly.
Location: Maoming · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-19
On September 19, science popularization blogger Heshenbao published an article reviewing his experience as a docent at the National Museum from 2011 to 2021, pointing out that dispatched labor employees and officially budgeted staff receive unequal pay for equal work, and promotion channels are limited. He criticized the system for shifting fiscal costs onto the ideals of young people, depleting employees' drive, and called for fulfilling corresponding obligations based on one's employment status.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
On September 20, Shangguan Zhengyi posted that at a ton-bag yard in Shiti Village, Xixia County, Nanyang, Henan, a mute woman with deformed hands had been doing hard labor there for many years. The local aid station had intervened a month ago, but her relatives have not yet been found, and her labor compensation and background remain under investigation.
Location: Nanyang · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-21
Cyberspace Administration of Qinghai released a statement stating that the recently circulated claim online that the "former Qinghai Culture and Tourism Department director is driving a rideshare" is untrue, and the driver in the video is a local Xining rideshare driver named Mr. Bai.
Location: Xining · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-19
On September 19, CCTV CNR's 'Kandan Observation' column released a video criticizing regulatory authorities for their slow response in handling food safety issues such as cabbages dipped in formaldehyde and bamboo shoots smoked with sulfur, questioning why regulatory authorities struggle to detect problems that media and bloggers can easily uncover.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
On September 20, a physical altercation broke out between two passengers on a train in Hebei over a minor dispute. Video footage shows that when the train police officer arrived to handle the situation, he was holding a cigarette and appeared indifferent to the ongoing argument, triggering netizen criticism regarding his work attitude and professionalism.
Location: Hebei · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-18
On September 18, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued a notice requiring platforms to clean up negative information inconsistent with official corporate statements, and categorized behaviors such as parodying corporate logos, products, and entrepreneurs' portraits as false and misleading handling scopes, demanding platforms to implement whole-process audits and strict handling of enterprise-related information.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-16
On September 16, a netizen published a long post using speech-to-text and similarity calculation, accusing Zhong Shu, the host of the podcast 'Du Shu Bu Cheng Lin', of plagiarizing content across at least 14 episodes. Among them, about half of the content in episode 310 was highly similar to the English podcast 'Breaking History'.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-19
On September 19, vlogger "Yulie Qige" reported that, with the cooperation of police from Hubei, Hunan, and Guangdong, a large semi-trailer truck loaded with sulfur was intercepted in Chenzhou, Hunan. Two sulfur-treated bamboo shoot processing dens in Qingyuan, Guangdong, have been sealed, relevant individuals detained, and an investigation is currently underway to trace the distribution of the problematic bamboo shoots. Previous videos showed that these bamboo shoots were abnormally white in color with a strong pungent odor, and were often supplied to large cafeterias.
Location: Chenzhou · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
Online reports claim that more than 50 cities across the country are simultaneously carrying out crackdowns, closures and shutdowns of entertainment venues, but there is no official source.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
Online reports claim that after the Spring Thunder Operation ends, entertainment venues across the country will face a 100-day intensive inspection campaign lasting from now until the end of the year, with continuous checks throughout the period.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
On September 20, 2026, Beijing time, China’s Ministry of State Security and official media blamed foreign forces for interfering in the popular domestic phenomenon of “lying flat.” This official claim was widely mocked and criticized by Chinese netizens, with the relevant comment sections filled with critical and satirical voices.
Importance III · Verification: Developing · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
A netizen's submission revealed that the Tianmijia Bee Industry production workshop canceled its only one day of rest per week for 62 consecutive days from July 20 to September 20, 2026.
Location: Wuzhou · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
Meeting recordings claim overtime on Saturdays and Sundays is paid at double wages, but in fact veteran employees are still paid for only 8 hours on weekends, while most new employees are labor-dispatched workers with neither double pay nor social insurance, and no paid annual leave even after one year of work.
Location: Wuzhou · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
The company has employee dorms where multiple people share rooms; a meeting recording says the dorms do not meet standards, and to avoid losing points in inspections employees were told to simply say there are no dorms.
Location: Wuzhou · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
On September 20, a Polish influencer posted a video on Douyin criticizing certain netizens for double standards: while fiercely hating Japan over its invasion of China, they simultaneously treat the Nazi blitzkrieg against Poland as a joke. The video received numerous likes and reposts, sparking heated discussions among netizens.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
The “Employee Interviews on Social Responsibility Certification” claims that clerks who miss a punch will help make up the punch, but in reality this does not exist; each missed punch results in a 10 yuan deduction.
Location: Wuzhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
The company's statement claimed 12 days off for the Spring Festival, but in fact only 9 days were given.
Location: Wuzhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
A netizen's submission revealed that the speech by Huang Zhonglian, chairman of Tianmi Family Bee Industry, was packaged with patriotic slogans while actually depriving employees of their right to rest.
Location: Wuzhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-20
On September 20, the intern posted screenshots showing the process of the teacher in question recalling messages in the chat group to respond to forgery accusations.
Location: Luoping County · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-18
On September 18, Study Times, the official newspaper of the CCP Central Committee Party School, published an article pointing out that public opinion has become a high-risk explosion point for social conflicts. It criticized the government for its habitual avoidance of responsibility, suggested channeling emotions through empathy and apologies, and called for incorporating public opinion management into the national governance system.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-19
On September 19, Hong Guangyu, a former reporter for the Beijing Science and Technology Report and a popular science author on food safety, was taken away across provinces in Xiamen by the Zhongshan Branch of the Dalian Public Security Bureau. He was criminally detained on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble and is currently being held at the Dalian Detention Center. Netizens exposed the incident on September 24, and his family confirmed it.
Location: Dalian · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-19
On September 19, Trump expelled CNN, MSNBC, Politico and other media outlets from the White House, after these outlets had refused to sign reporting conditions and had withdrawn from the Pentagon on their own. Secretary of War Hegseth tweeted in support of the decision, saying these outlets endangered military security through false reporting and leaks; the outlets in question reportedly plan to sue the White House on First Amendment grounds.
Location: Washington · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-19
On September 19, an intern at Luoping County People's Hospital exposed that they were not given a holiday for the Mid-Autumn Festival and was threatened in a group chat by a leader surnamed Luo, who said he would make them "die."
Location: Luoping County · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-19
The teacher involved complained to the platform, stating that the circulating chat group screenshots were forged and that online bullying has disrupted their life.
Location: Luoping County · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-18
US President Trump announced, effective immediately, a ban on CNN, MSNBC, Politico, and other media outlets accused of long-standing fake news reporting from entering the White House, and specifically criticized Politico for accepting huge government subscription contracts during the Biden administration.
Location: 美国华盛顿特区 · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-18
Ermatou Primary School in Wutongqiao District, Leshan, Sichuan, was exposed for forcing parents to take turns standing guard for school safety. A reporter visited and found multiple elderly people aged 67 holding long sticks on duty at the school gate.
Location: 四川省乐山市五通桥区 · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-17
On September 17, on Daoqian Street, Kecheng District, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, a "Sanqiu Volunteer Police" member was directed by a cameraman and a director to intentionally stage a promotional scene of helping an elderly person cross the street. The staged act was captured by a passerby and triggered widespread public ridicule.
Location: Quzhou · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-11
On September 11, netizens witnessed a captive killer whale with a collapsed dorsal fin repeatedly headbutting the display tank at Chimelong Spaceship in Zhuhai. This incident has sparked widespread public concern and criticism regarding the captive environment in aquariums and the physical and mental health of the animals.
Location: Zhuhai · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-12
On September 12, a netizen posted on Xiaohongshu (RedNote) claiming that an age limit of 25 was set for recruitment at a Guming store, sparking public criticism over workplace age discrimination. Netizens believe this restriction reflects excessive labor intensity in the position and called for a boycott by refusing to patronize the brand.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-18
Blogger Yulie Qige posted a video on September 18 documenting his entire process of tracking down unscrupulous merchants in Qingyuan, Guangdong, who use sulfur to fumigate ma bamboo shoots. He said tests showed sulfur dioxide levels exceeded the limit by dozens or even hundreds of times, and pointed out that long-term consumption of sulfur-fumigated shoots containing arsenic and heavy metals carries a cancer risk. The Qingyuan Market Supervision Bureau subsequently issued a report confirming that individual dens had illegally used sulfur fumigation; the dens involved have been sealed off, and the distribution of the tainted bamboo shoots is being traced.
Location: Qingyuan · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-18
A screenshot circulating online purporting to show Anna Yao, daughter of Ren Zhengfei, threatening netizens on Xiaohongshu has sparked heated debate. After comparing details such as the author tag color scheme, account name format, and IP location changes, it was judged to be highly likely a photoshopped forgery. Huawei has issued no official response.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-09-18
According to a post by the X account "Orange," a netizen submitted that Ren Zhengfei's youngest daughter Yao Anna was found threatening in Weibo comment sections, "One phone call from me and I can have your whole family killed, whether it's the police or the underworld," sparking discussion among netizens.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-09-18
An Aito owner said that while driving with smart driving on the Gansu-Shaanxi Expressway in heavy rain, the wipers suddenly stopped working and the washer fluid spray failed; the system demanded manual takeover. After turning on the hazard lights, pulling over, and forcing a power-off restart, it returned to normal.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-18
An AITO owner posted fault records, saying the vehicle's air conditioning compressor had been replaced multiple times, and that after-sales service only provided some of the fault records, refusing to print earlier ones.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-15
On September 15, a netizen reported on social media that a pothole had appeared on Gongyuan Road in Xinzhuang District, New Taipei City. Councilor Chen Shih-hsun responded within three hours and completed the repair four days later, sparking discussions among Chinese netizens about the communication mechanisms and efficiency of officials on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Location: New Taipei · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-17
On September 17, volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi exposed that a disabled man in Huguan County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, had been illegally held by a foreman and forced to perform hard labor at a cattle farm for over 30 years. The man claims to be from Henan, and his wages were withheld by the foreman, who claimed the man was "picked up." After Shangguan Zhengyi reported the case to the police, local authorities failed to respond within 25 minutes. The man's identity and the details of his confinement are still under investigation.
Location: Changzhi · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-17
A parent posted a video showing instructors at Guangzhou Donghua Vocational College forcing students to undergo military training in a rainstorm.
Location: Guangzhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-05
On September 5, netizens reported that nearly two months after the floods in Hengzhou, Guangxi, some elderly residents under the Five Guarantees system and impoverished households are still sleeping on damp floors because their beds were washed away and they received no aid. Volunteers have now launched a survey and fundraising campaign to buy folding beds, sparking public questioning of disaster relief distribution and government support capabilities.
Location: Hengzhou City · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-12
On September 12, surveillance footage from the Bao Pizza Binhe Square store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, showed an employee sprinkling suspected dandruff and appearing to spit on food waiting to be served, raising food safety concerns.
Location: Hangzhou · Importance II · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-09-14
On September 14, academic anti-fraud blogger "Geng Tongxue" published a video publicly questioning two first-authored papers by Zhang Yaohua, a researcher at Peking University Third Hospital and recipient of the Overseas Outstanding Youth grant, pointing out multiple data anomalies, fixed constant conversions, and image duplications.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-14
On September 14, several nurses at the Second People's Hospital of Hulan District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province reported that the hospital had been withholding wages for up to two years. After prolonged unsuccessful rights protection, the medical staff chose to publicly expose the issue online to seek a solution.
Location: Harbin · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-16
On September 16, 2026, someone online fabricated chat records to spread rumors about mainland Chinese actor Wang Hedi, and a blogger created a related topic entry to spread them further; Wang Hedi's studio completed notarization of the evidence that same day, reported the case to Beijing police, and issued a statement saying it would pursue legal responsibility in accordance with the law against those who fabricated and spread the rumors.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-15
Volunteer searcher Du Xiaohua posted a video report; in the case that attracted attention after reporting Sun Meihua's abuse, the “Uncle Long” who had long controlled Sun Meihua’s cohabitation has been taken by local police for investigation.
Location: Cao County · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-14
After the closure of Yucai School in Pingyin County, Jinan City, Shandong Province, a teacher posted a complaint about the school owing wages and social security contributions, and suspected that their personal items in the office had been rummaged through. On-site footage shows items scattered across the classroom, with desks and books discarded at will.
Location: Jinan · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-14
On September 14, Chi Wen, a former police officer at the Huangyan Branch of the Taizhou Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province, filed a real-name report against his two brothers, Chi Guangxu and Chi Rixin, who are both public officials. He accused them of long-term illegal business operations and using their power to monopolize the packaging bag business in their jurisdiction, securing high profits of 30% to 40%. He also alleged that they bribed leaders in the industry and commerce department and received tip-offs when they were under investigation by the discipline inspection commission.
Location: Taizhou · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-14
According to a Caixin report, many contract teachers in Guangzhou’s Huangpu, Haizhu, Panyu and Huadu districts were dismissed by schools before their contracts expired. Due to declining birthrates, primary school enrollment in Guangzhou fell sharply by about 19.9% from 2023 to 2025, and contract teachers who had been hired in large numbers to cope with enrollment peaks now bear the brunt of layoffs.
Location: Guangzhou · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-15
On September 15, a netizen uploaded a video repeatedly poking the damaged ceiling at Phase II of Yuelu Qingcheng in Huaihua, Hunan with a wooden stick, with dust and debris falling one after another, calling it a tofu-dreg project, more fragile than tofu.
Location: Huaihua, Hunan · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-12
On September 12, a blogger posted a payslip from Nantong CIMC, showing 30 days of attendance and a total of 352 working hours last month, averaging over 11 hours per day. The actual take-home pay was 11,364 yuan, with an hourly wage of approximately 32 yuan. The video has sparked widespread discussion among netizens regarding long overtime hours, lack of social security, and low hourly wages.
Location: Nantong · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-13
On September 13, a blogger released a video visiting multiple fast-food restaurants to investigate employee working hours and leave arrangements. A McDonald's employee stated they work 8 hours a day as a part-timer with an hourly wage of 14 RMB, while another employee evaded questions about the number of leave days. The video sparked widespread attention and discussion among netizens regarding labor rights.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-11
On September 11, 2026, a Huawei exclusive store in Zhejiang Province forced two on‑the‑job employees to perform compulsory deep‑squat punishments, requiring them to squat continuously in place for dozens of times. Passersby on the scene witnessed and recorded the whole incident on their phones; the video later spread on social platforms, sparking netizens’ doubts and criticism of the company’s labor practices. The store has not issued any public response.
Location: Zhejiang · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-14
On September 14, Student Geng stated in a questioning video that there are 4 duplicated images across different plates in two first-author papers by Zhang Yaohua.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-14
On September 14, Student Geng stated in a questioning video that among Zhang Yaohua's two first-author papers, another two sets of data differ by 10000 item by item.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-11
On September 11, a netizen revealed that a Uniqlo employee who requested to use the restroom due to diarrhea was denied by the store manager, who cited insufficient staff. The netizen claimed that leaving the post without approval faces a warning or dismissal, and using the restroom for more than 5 minutes is criticized. Related comments were deleted and controlled.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-13
On September 13, a blogger who claimed to have attended Hengshui No.2 Middle School in Hebei posted a video exposing high‑pressure control and serious human‑rights violations within the school. She said teachers often beat and verbally abuse students, causing sternum or clavicle fractures; a sophomore girl, after being insulted, cut her wrist in the dormitory; and a female student, seeking protection, developed a relationship with a male teacher, whose homeroom teacher was later taken away on suspicion of rape.
Location: Hengshui · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-13
On September 13, a blogger who claimed to be a graduate of Hengshui No. 2 High School posted a video saying that a second-year high school girl suffered a psychological breakdown after being verbally abused by her homeroom teacher and slit her wrists in the dormitory, committing suicide.
Location: Hengshui · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-13
On September 13, a blogger who claimed to be a graduate of Hengshui No. 2 High School posted a video saying that under high-pressure controls, some female students, in order to seek so-called protection, developed intimate relationships with male teachers who hold managerial power.
Location: Hengshui · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-10
The lawsuit filed by Hong Kong Journalists Association Chairwoman Ronson Chan Man-fai against Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, over his dismissal has concluded. The court ruled that Dow Jones obstructed the exercise of union rights, but the claim of illegal dismissal was not established. Sentencing will be scheduled for a later date.
Location: Hong Kong · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-11
The whistleblower who exposed the Jumai Group's "lymphatic meat" incident has posted a video seeking help, claiming to be pressured by the company's senior management to take down the exposé video and alleging favoritism towards the outsourced canteen. They have since sought legal aid from a lawyer.
Location: Guangzhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-11
On September 11, a blogger released a video exposing Douyin's traffic monetization and censorship mechanisms, claiming that attacking the US can earn 15 yuan per 10,000 views. Conversely, videos debunking false foreign information are restricted and offer no revenue. The blogger questioned why related content from a certain "Global Times" video was forcibly removed.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-11
On September 11, the first instance trial for the influencer Tietou's extortion case concluded, with him being sentenced to eight years in prison for multiple crimes. After the verdict was announced, comment sections on social media platforms showed polarized opinions, sparking public discussion on the boundaries and social roles of online anti-fraud activities.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-10
On September 10, Shao Tianlan, founder and CEO of Mech-Mind, posted on his WeChat Moments, accusing Galaxy Core, a company valued at over 20 billion yuan and featured on the Spring Festival Gala, of fabricating revenue through related-party transactions to rush its IPO. He publicly questioned whether Beijing municipal leaders support such companies going public.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-10
On September 10, 2026, the Jinjiang Branch of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau lifted the bail for Liu Hu due to changes in the case. Lawyer Zhou Ze posted the decision, announcing the end of the criminal prosecution initiated in February of this year, and Liu Hu will not need to stand trial.
Location: Chengdu · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-12
Around September 12, 2026, a livestream sales influencer with a large following publicly shouted “Xi Jinping step down” during a broadcast, and spoke about nonviolent civil disobedience and the Czech revolution that overthrew the Communist Party. When sensitive words were mentioned, the comment section of the livestream was immediately closed.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-09-10
On September 10, netizens revealed that Time Fengjun was listed as a key regulatory target, with offline performances and cultural tourism approvals blocked, related documentaries, daily materials, and merchandise facing cold treatment, and the October 6 session of the Luzhou Music Festival also canceled.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-10
Wu Zhongmin, a reporter from Jiangxi Radio and Television Station, was slapped in the face by the father of the person in charge of a company involved in a dispute while interviewing at a Xiaer Baba homestay in Shenzhen. The All-China Journalists Association has spoken out in support of the reporter's right to perform their duties according to law and demanded severe punishment for the assailant.
Location: Shenzhen · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-11
Cameras were installed in the men's restroom of an office building in the Sany Heavy Truck Park in Changsha, Hunan, and the matter was exposed by netizens' submissions.
Location: Changsha · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-09
On September 9, the canteen of Guangdong Jinmai Group was reported by netizens for allegedly providing suspected inferior lymph meat for a long time. Employees stated that after multiple unsuccessful reports, they decided to expose it.
Location: Guangdong · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-11
Beijing time, September 11, 2026 — According to China Digital Times (CDT), Wuhan authorities punished the relevant theater and the event organizer because crosstalk comedian Guo Degang sang “red songs” during a performance without prior approval. It remains undecided whether Guo Degang will be allowed to continue performing crosstalk or Peking opera. Outside observers believe that the authorities’ prolonged silence over whether to permit his performances is itself a statement.
Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-11
On September 11, the whistleblower in the Guangdong Jinmai Group "lymph meat" incident posted a video asking for help, saying he was pressured by company executives and asked to take the video down while the outsourced canteen was favored, accusing the company of violating his rights, saying he is seeking a lawyer's help, and receiving messages of support from many netizens.
Location: Guangdong · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-10
Kunming police stated that Du某 fabricated false internship information to gain traffic and was administratively detained, while netizens questioned the discrepancies between the report and the merchant's account.
Location: Kunming · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-09
Netizens on a mini-program review platform commented on Hangzhou Jinxin Enterprise Management Company, stating that it requires female employees to wear yoga clothes, fires married employees, and only hires those who are unmarried and have not given birth.
Location: Hangzhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-10
The UK's Financial Times reported that CIA Director Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow was aimed at playing a greater role in Russia-Ukraine ceasefire negotiations, and said the White House declined to comment. White House principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly tweeted a denial, saying the White House did not refuse to comment; rather, the Financial Times published its story ahead of the deadline, basing the report on low-level anonymous sources, and not a single one of the claimed conversations ever took place.
Location: United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-09
On September 9, CATL responded to a viral video showing extreme behavior by a workshop employee, denying that the individuals in the video were company employees, stating the content was malicious rumors, and announcing that it had reported the matter to the public (Public Security) organs for investigation.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-09
On September 9, screenshots posted by a Shandong netizen revealed that a Tastien store required employees to clock in 5 minutes early and clock out 5 minutes after their shift ended, and stipulated a fine of 20 yuan for being 1 minute late.
Location: Shandong · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-09
On September 9, a Shandong netizen revealed in the comments section that the Tastien store they work at forces employees to sign contracts “voluntarily waiving social insurance.”
Location: Shandong · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-09
On September 9, a Douyin influencer posted a video suggesting that consumers try to avoid purchasing products from companies that exploit their employees, arguing that excessive overtime and low wages make it difficult to produce high-quality goods. In the comments, BYD was repeatedly named, while Fuyao Glass, CATL, Huawei, and Foxconn were also mentioned. The video received approximately 196,000 likes.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-09
On September 9, a JD Food delivery rider posted a screenshot of an order, in which the delivery information was labeled “CCP member rider.”
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-06
On September 6, a netizen discovered that inside the “anti-bullying mailbox” set up at Dapeng School of Shenzhen Middle School, there were two already damaged and yellowed help letters, and the mailbox was heavily covered in dust. The netizen questioned, “Is it just for show?”. The letters show that the student writing to the principal reported that a certain classmate had long engaged in bullying behaviors such as hitting people and stealing others' belongings, and asked the principal “save us”. Netizens heatedly discussed in the comment section... #FanzeiAcademy
Location: Shenzhen · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-08
Around September 8, investigative reporter Liu Hu disclosed on the WeChat public account "Fa Yu Qing" that when Liu Yuan served as deputy head of Xiaodian District in Taiyuan in 2006, he drove an official vehicle across double solid lines and turned left, causing 1 death and 6 injuries; he bore 504,000 yuan in compensation, and Liu Hu questioned the determination of accident liability.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-08
In the comments section of an avoid-this-brand post on Xiaohongshu on September 8, a netizen pointed out that Pop Mart's contract factory has no days off in a busy month, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. shifts are common, and the hourly wage is 10 yuan, urging people to avoid it.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-09-08
In the comments section of an avoid-this-store post on Xiaohongshu on September 8, a netizen pointed out that the store employees of milk tea brands such as Yidiandian, Chabaidao, Shuyi, Mixue Ice Cream & Tea, and Lelecha all get only four days off per month, and called on people to avoid them.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-09-08
In the comments section of a Xiaohongshu avoid-this-store post on September 8, a netizen pointed out that Guming stores pay low hourly wages, and employees are also fined for making drinks incorrectly or failing to label expiration dates, calling on people to avoid the stores.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-09-07
The Wuhan Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau determined that Guo Degang altered the performance content without authorization and distorted anti-Japanese War songs; the organizer's illegal gains were confiscated and a fine of ten times the amount, totaling more than 480,000 yuan, was imposed, and Wuhan Zhongnan Theater and the related performances were penalized.
Location: Wuhan, Hubei · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-05
In a Zhihu Q&A, a netizen revealed that Xingyu's layoff of fresh graduates was taken to the EU, and said that the student had previously gone through the labor arbitration process, reporting up the line all the way to the municipal Party secretary, and that all of them concluded the company's layoffs were not in violation and there was no subsidy fraud.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-05
Caixin reported on September 5, 2026 that a study published in a Lancet sub-journal points out that although the health needs of China's top 20% high-income households by ability to pay account for less than 8%, they take up over 40% to 50% of the total social medical insurance reimbursement.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, media reported that the state-owned enterprise Zijin Mining miswrote 'People's Government' as 'Renminbi Government' in its disclosed semi-annual report. This typo triggered widespread mockery from netizens regarding the government's profit above everything.
Location: Longyan, Fujian · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, a young job seeker posted on Xiaohongshu imitating the sentence structure of the Xinhua News Agency: "Don't let low wages crush the happiness of the vast number of young people." After it resonated with a massive number of netizens who followed up with joking replies, the post was fully blocked and taken down by the platform.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, an AITO car owner posted a video revealing that while filming the old battery during a faulty power battery replacement at a 4S dealership, after-sales staff snatched his phone twice and forcibly unlocked his photo album to delete the photos.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, a netizen in Shandong posted a video reporting that a local Huawei store had privately blocked the public sidewalk outside its door with iron railings, making it impossible to pass, sparking widespread online mockery about privilege.
Location: Shandong · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, a netizen published a post exposing that dispatched workers at JD.com's Shanghai Asia No. 1 warehouse account for as much as about 70%, allegedly violating the statutory red line on employment, with working hours exceeding 13 hours and strict meal and rest conditions.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, multiple medical staff at the Xiangfu District Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Kaifeng, Henan, reported that the hospital has long withheld performance pay and forced a 40% salary cut across the entire hospital, with some staff receiving only four or five hundred yuan per month.
Location: Kaifeng, Henan · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09
The influencer "Tietou" (Dong Guangming) was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Binjiang Court in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, for organizing a team to expose social darkness, including scams involving elderly health products and shortchanging at seafood markets. His team members were also sentenced. The official reason given was "extortion," but the video argues this is a fabricated charge aimed at suppressing those who reveal the truth.
Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang · Importance V · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-09-01
Bloomberg published a commentary mentioning the dispute between Justin Sun and Jing Tian and the lawsuit over a 30 million RMB betrothal gift, arguing that the related publicity stunt could deepen public skepticism about cryptocurrency.
Location: New York, United States · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09
Rumors online claim that Ren Zhengfei and Meng Wanzhou fled the country by sea. The news has been out for six or seven days, yet neither Ren Zhengfei nor Meng Wanzhou has appeared in public, and Huawei has not issued a denial, sparking speculation outside the company.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-09
In mid-September, during Xi Jinping's visit to India, overseas Chinese social media platforms were flooded with claims that Ren Zhengfei, Meng Wanzhou, and more than ten other family members had gone missing and might have fled to a small island overseas via Shenzhen's Dapeng Peninsula. Screenshots purporting to be internal Huawei conversations and videos allegedly showing armed police surrounding Huawei's Shenzhen headquarters also circulated. Huawei has not responded publicly.
Location: Shenzhen, China · Importance IV · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, new management regulations targeting self-media and MCN agencies officially took effect, mandating that accounts display their affiliated agencies and prohibiting the rehashing of negative information and the incitement of netizens' emotions.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Verifying · View causal chain →
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, anti-trafficking blogger Shangguan Zhengyi exposed that a farm in Jiyuan, Henan illegally confined two disabled people and forced them to work as unpaid laborers for more than ten years; the victims lived in squalid conditions and were often beaten.
Location: Jiyuan, Henan · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09
In September 2026, online reports claimed that Xibei founder Jia Guolong would sue Luo Yonghao, who had previously exposed problems with Xibei's pre-made dishes. As of the time the report surfaced, no lawsuit had yet been formally filed, sparking public criticism of the company for shirking responsibility.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-09
Reports online claim that Yao Anna, daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, threatened a netizen while replying on Xiaohongshu, saying that a single phone call could kill their entire family, sparking public outrage. Some netizens suspect that her account has been taken over by state security personnel.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-09
Rumors circulate that Yao Anna posted saying the screenshot of threatening comments attributed to her was maliciously photoshopped and absolutely not posted by her herself; at the same time, a large number of accounts claimed that the screenshot's IP location did not match her actual location, proving it was photoshopped, with debunking and counter-debunking tearing at each other online.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-09
According to a video from Hu Liren's True China, Guo Degang has constantly exposed the darkness of society in his crosstalk works and was arrested some time ago. This news has not been officially confirmed.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-09
In September 2026, Zhang Chao, a teacher at Guizhou Industry Polytechnic College, posted a suicide note online, publicly accusing some school leaders of improperly occupying two housing units, and saying he had long suffered retaliation.
Location: Guizhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-09
Reports online claim that at a certain Shanghai international airport, ground staff and other workers all left work at the end of their shift before the flight had even landed, leaving passengers with no one to receive them, sparking questions about the outsourcing of airport jobs and service quality.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-31
Hu Xijin again criticized Sun Yuchen for publicly exposing Jing Tian's privacy, and cited Doubao's analysis of why the cryptocurrency community, commercial self-media, and ordinary netizens support Sun Yuchen.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-31
On August 31, Tibet police dealt with real-name internet users on the grounds of spreading false information, continuing to advance the Clean Net 2026 special campaign. Within a week of the disaster, they listed multiple related cases and restricted netizens from discussing the number of dead and missing in the Gyirong mudslide.
Location: Tibet · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-08-30
During rescue operations for the Gyirong mudslide, relevant authorities imposed administrative penalties on 10 netizens on the grounds of spreading false information about the mudslide.
Location: Gyirong County, Tibet · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-08-28
Hu Xijin posted a criticism of Sun Yuchen, saying that after a failed courtship and while seeking the return of property, he unilaterally made another person's privacy public, calling his behavior seriously immoral and a disgrace to Chinese men and the crypto circle.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-08-28
People’s Daily Online published a commentary criticizing private disputes occupying the hot search lists and intimate details of personal lives being continuously exposed, and said that platforms must not fan the flames and must not put traffic above everything.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi confirmed that a disabled man who had lived at a pig farm in Zhengyang County, Henan for nearly ten years successfully located relatives he had been separated from for over thirty years.
Location: Zhumadian, Henan · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-27
On August 27, a netizen posted a video claiming that a Haier factory required workers to work for 8.5 consecutive hours without eating, drinking, or using the restroom. A worker was questioned by management for going to the toilet, leading to a heated argument; the video was subsequently taken down.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, a villager from Yilin Village, Zhaozhou County, Daqing, Heilongjiang, posted a video reporting that while making a real-name complaint about corn drip irrigation tape issues on-site, the village party secretary issued a death threat using aggressive language to their face, while the discipline inspection officials present failed to intervene.
Location: Daqing, Heilongjiang · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, People's Daily Online published a People's Sharp Commentary criticizing the recent phenomenon of manufacturing companies mass-breaking contracts with fresh graduates, and calling on employers to treat young talent well and honor their contracts.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-08-26
A topic appeared on Baidu Hot Search: "Rumors circulating online that COVID in August is very serious and that there is a variant strain are false."
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-26
On August 26, 2026, a motorcycle owner in Shanghai posted a video reporting that he encountered layer upon layer of obstacles and deliberate difficulties while handling compulsory traffic insurance at the People's Insurance Company of China; the insurance company was accused of de facto refusing to sell compulsory motorcycle insurance because profits are thin.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-25
On August 25, 2026, after the Hangzhou police issued a statement on the Yunshan Jun elevator dispute, netizens found that the comments section of the official statement appeared to be flooded by organized paid trolls shaping the narrative; a few accounts were exposed because they failed to delete the serial numbers and multiple templates in their copy-pasted scripts.
Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, The Beijing News published an investigative report revealing that a disinfection and pest control company in Xiamen had long-term filled mineral water bottles with the highly toxic pesticide dichlorvos, tearing off the labels to evade inspection, and carried out pest control operations in violation of regulations for dozens of chain restaurants, with the work directly contacting tableware and food ingredients.
Location: Xiamen, Fujian · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, villagers from Shucaicun in Hailin City, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, posted a video reporting that the local Party-mass service center was completely empty during afternoon office hours and no one answered the phone, indicating staff absence from their posts.
Location: Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-23
On August 23, 2026, a netizen posted to expose Fuzhou Institute of Technology's high-pressure management, which forces morning check-ins and confiscates phones, and also instructs the student union and students to report and manipulate comments on social platforms regarding negative content about the school.
Location: Fuzhou, Fujian · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-23
On August 23, 2026, Shanghai's Huangpu police announced the investigation and handling of an online corporate rumor case. A netizen surnamed Mo was placed under administrative detention by police for fabricating and publishing a false post on an investment platform claiming that Xiaohongshu's IPO had failed.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-08-22
On August 22, blogger "Yulie Qige" released an investigation video exposing the loading site in the cabbage production area of Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, where workers treated cabbage by dipping it in a formaldehyde solution, triggering public concern over vegetable food safety.
Location: Zhangjiakou · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, a blogger exposed the use of formaldehyde to keep Chinese cabbages fresh during harvesting and transport in Zhangjiakou, Hebei. Zhangjiakou police seized more than ten barrels of formaldehyde, and market regulators in Fuyang, Anhui subsequently intercepted the vehicle involved, filed a case and sealed it.
Location: Zhangjiakou, Hebei · Importance III · Verification: Verifying · View causal chain →
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, multiple workers revealed on social media platforms that internet platforms such as Meituan Food Delivery and cleaning services force workers to buy cleaning kits and other equipment worth several hundred yuan before assigning them orders, allegedly a disguised form of illegal deposit collection.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, a student at Zhanjiang Technician College in Guangdong, China, exposed online that a student at the school had long been threatening, beating, and extorting classmates. The school was accused of covering up the behavior multiple times. The victim has reported the case to the police and taken a leave of absence.
Location: Zhanjiang, Guangdong · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, a JD Express employee in Shandong posted a video exposing the company's forced assignment of numerous non-delivery targets such as on-the-ground customer acquisition, and said that the company suspended work in the area and effectively pushed employees out despite no errors on their part.
Location: Shandong · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-21
At 12:58 PM, Caixin published a long signed article by James Liang titled "A Century of Chinese Population History," with the author still identified as the Executive Chairman of Trip.com Group.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-08-20
Shangguan Zhengyi assisted police (Public Security) in arresting human traffickers and surrogacy agency personnel, and rescued a surrogate infant who was about to be sold.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-20
On the evening of August 20, 2026, the official Guangdong Fire Department account was flooded with comments by a large number of netizens during a livestream of a military-training fire safety promotion event, demanding answers on responsibility for minors purchasing petrol and committing arson and animal cruelty in public places.
Location: Foshan, Guangdong · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-20
On August 20, 2026, a technical developer released an analysis report pointing out that Alibaba's cross-border e-commerce platform, AliExpress, silently invokes WebAudio via security scripts in its webpage backend to generate audio signals, which are combined with various hardware parameters to create deep device fingerprints.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-20
Around August 20, rumors circulated online that Ctrip's Liang Jianzhang had fled, which were likewise linked to the new entry-exit regulations taking effect on September 15, but the matter eventually fizzled out.
Location: Shanghai · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-20
On August 20, 2026, multiple staff members exposed that the crew of Season 8 of Tencent Video's variety show The Exciting Offer worked more than 18 hours of overtime, withheld overtime pay, and threatened and blamed employees who defended their rights.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-19
On August 19, 2026, a blogger who keeps camels posted a video reporting that the camel he raises was judged by a short-video platform's review to involve vulgar content and had its reach restricted due to its facial physiological features; his appeal was unsuccessful.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-17
On August 17, 2026, Caixin reported that as the school-age population shrinks, surplus school places have appeared in primary schools across the country, yet some megacities have chosen to cut places, and the threshold for migrant children to enroll remains as high as ever.
Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-17
On August 17, 2026, after the resume of Yu Tingdong, deputy head of Binjiang District in Hangzhou, was taken down, a former investigative journalist wrote an article revealing the unwritten rules of the real estate circle, in which drinking gatherings are used to court officials and harm women. The article quickly went viral online.
Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-17
On August 17, 2026, a technician in Sichuan posted a video on a social platform showing that ordinary trains, at the request of regulatory authorities, have had all removable interior parts stripped out and iron netting installed, converting them into dedicated long-distance prisoner escort carriages.
Location: Sichuan · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-16
On August 16, 2026, the Laoshan police in Qingdao, Shandong, reported that a man was administratively detained in accordance with the law for using AI to generate a fake Qingdao University emblem resembling the Rising Sun Flag and spreading rumors that the university had urgently taken it down, all to attract traffic.
Location: 山东省青岛市崂山区 · Importance II · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-08-15
On August 18, 2026, Huashi Xiping Bilingual High School in Xiamen, Fujian, was exposed by students for illegally organizing incoming senior-year students to return to school early during the summer vacation, while implementing closed, high-pressure boarding management.
Location: Xiamen, Fujian · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-15
On August 15, 2026, it was reported online that Shanghai Radio and Television host Chen Xuan, after facing public attacks for half-kneeling to hand over a microphone at a film premiere, was suspended from on-air hosting and had related materials removed.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-14
CCP party media People's Daily published a message soliciting opinions from the public, but the comment section showed "no comments yet," with only the author allowed to comment, sparking netizen criticism of it as "fishing" and "solving the person who raises the problem."
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-14
On August 14, 2026, after Hong Kong independent bookstore Liu Xia Bookhouse was searched by the police's national security division, which took away several people and announced a suspension of business, a number Hong Kong residents posted sticky notes in front of the bookstore to show their support.
Location: Hong Kong · Importance III · Verification: Verifying · View causal chain →
2026-08-14
On August 14, 2026, investigative journalist Li Weiao disclosed during a field visit to the mountainous areas of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, that elderly left-behind farmers receive only 200 yuan in pension per month; living in straitened circumstances, they still have to stay up all night in the fields to ward off wild boars to make a living.
Location: Hanzhong, Shaanxi · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-13
On August 13, 2026, blogger Geng tongxue (Student Geng) released a video publicly accusing, under his real name, a paper published by a Zhejiang University research team in Nature Cell Biology of multiple instances of data fabrication and academic misconduct.
Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-13
"CC Who Collects Phones" (the mysterious woman in glasses), a Zhuanzhuan second-hand platform employee who became an internet celebrity through an ad, was hit by a fabricated sex rumor. She reported the case to the police to defend her rights but did not receive widespread sympathy from public opinion. The incident sparked discussion about the rights and obligations of influencer employees and their companies, as well as how public relations should be handled.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, a public government procurement disclosure showed that the procurement budget for the 38th China Golden Rooster Hundred Flowers Film Festival reached 32.4 million yuan, funded by the Publicity Department of the Beijing Municipal Committee, sparking public doubts about spending large amounts of fiscal funds on a celebrity gala.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Verifying · View causal chain →
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, a JD heavy-cargo courier in Shenzhen exposed on social networks the extreme labor intensity of having only one day off in half a year, and was subsequently ordered by management to stop work indefinitely.
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, anti-child-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi posted a report revealing that those involved in the Pingdingshan surrogacy case had been sentenced, but his video questioning the regulatory responsibility of the joint investigation team of the provincial health commission was promptly throttled.
Location: Pingdingshan, Henan · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, Wu Lina, the whistleblower in the case of the enforcement bureau chief of Congtai District Court in Handan, Hebei soliciting bribes, appeared publicly for an exclusive interview, questioning why no conclusion had been announced more than half a year after the municipal party committee demanded an investigation.
Location: Handan, Hebei · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, a student rights platform revealed that teachers at Hechang Middle School in Lüliang, Shanxi, forcibly searched the WeChat and Douyin private messages and personal photo albums of several female students on the pretext of investigating a conflict; the school subsequently acknowledged that this was indeed inappropriate.
Location: Lüliang, Shanxi · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, internet users exposed that the command center of an off-site enforcement monitoring site in Dabu County, Meizhou, Guangdong, was suspected of deliberately unplugging the service phone line. The related exposé video was subsequently removed by the platform.
Location: 广东省梅州市大埔县 · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-10
On August 10, 2026, at the Yuejiangtai beach bathing area in Danjiangkou, Shiyan, Hubei, a 15-year-old boy drowned after going into the water to save someone. His family questioned whether lifeguards delayed for 20 minutes and whether the search and rescue took 3 hours, and the subsequent exposure of the incident was subjected to traffic throttling and comment control.
Location: Shiyan, Hubei · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-10
On August 10, 2026, Zhejiang Daily reported that the female village party secretary of Huaqiang Village in Xiangshan County, Ningbo, claimed that she, weighing 99 jin, could carry an 85-kilogram elderly person during typhoon disaster relief. The exaggerated publicity has drawn widespread skepticism from netizens, and multiple comment sections have been cleared out.
Location: Ningbo, Zhejiang · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-10
On August 10, 2026, the Pudong Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau issued a police report stating that a man was given administrative detention in accordance with the law for fabricating and posting false disaster-related information that disrupted public order during typhoon weather.
Location: Shanghai · Importance II · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-08-09
On a footbridge near Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, chengguan officers clashed with street vendors and brutally beat male and female vendors, sparking online outrage and widespread post deletions. Police later announced that three chengguan assistant officers involved in the case had been criminally detained.
Location: Wuhan, Hubei · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-08-09
On August 9, 2026, it was reported online that at a restaurant called 'Bu Ke Fried Chicken' in Guangdong, an employee assigned to work the shift alone suffered an emotional breakdown and collapsed on the floor due to an overwhelming surge in orders and high-intensity work pressure.
Location: Guangdong · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-09
On August 9, 2026, netizens exposed on social media that Guoyun Group (Qingdao) Security Service Co., Ltd. in Huangdao District, Qingdao, Shandong had long been in arrears with wages of grassroots employees, prompting victims to defend their rights online.
Location: Qingdao, Shandong · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, netizens testing the systems found that when waiting in a queue on Tencent's and several telecom operators' customer service systems, typing "I am a foreigner" would immediately connect them to a dedicated human agent channel, sparking strong public doubts about super-national treatment.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-05
On August 5, 2026, an academic fraud-exposing blogger posted a video revealing that the team of Zou Jietao, vice president of Hainan Medical University and a doctoral supervisor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, mass-fabricated experimental data in multiple papers published in top international journals through simple multiplication and division, shaking the academic community.
Location: Haikou, Hainan · Importance IV · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-05
On August 5, 2026, a grassroots public servant in Guangzhou revealed online that multiple districts in Guangzhou are replicating excessive pandemic control measures in dengue fever prevention, adopting human-wave tactics, posting three-color health codes, and imposing forced quarantine on infected individuals.
Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-05
On August 5, 2026, internet users revealed that inside the Party-Mass Service Center at the Hangzhou East Railway Station transport hub, a citizen suffering from heatstroke tried to enter to ask for water to cool down, only to be rudely driven away by security personnel, sparking criticism of formalism in grassroots government services.
Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-05
On August 5, after Jilin Tonghua No. 15 Middle School's violation of rules in organizing offline make-up classes was exposed through a student's online post, the school promptly issued an emergency notice announcing the complete termination of this semester's tutoring arrangements, effective immediately.
Location: Tonghua, Jilin · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-04
The Cyberspace Administration of China has announced a batch of enforcement actions against malicious hype of company-related information, involving accounts that published false information about Li Auto, hyped negative information about companies, and maliciously attacked corporate executives.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-08-04
Villagers in Xiaoyi Town, Hengzhou, Guangxi, affected by floods, rejected the official designation of the disaster as a natural disaster and the low compensation of several hundred yuan, publishing an article to defend their rights and accusing reservoir management of severe inaction and uncontrolled flood discharge that caused the flood to destroy the village.
Location: Hengzhou City · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-04
On August 4, 2026, the Handan Intermediate People's Court in Hebei announced that an audio recording of improper remarks circulating online was authentic. Guo Hongbo, director of the enforcement bureau of the Congtai District Court, was suspended and placed under a special investigation for soliciting bribes from a female party to the case and verbally harassing her.
Location: Handan, Hebei · Importance IV · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-08-04
On August 4, 2026, the official authorities of Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi announced that administrative penalties had been imposed on 18 netizens who posted information about local floods on the grounds of spreading disaster-related rumors, prompting netizens to satirize in the comments section that the truth about the flood was being covered up.
Location: Guangxi Nanning · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-03
On August 3, 2026, it was exposed online that a minor female employee was offered several thousand yuan by a restaurant owner for verbal and physical sexual harassment while working part time. The victim publicly released chat screenshots and audio recordings and plans to report the case to the police to defend her rights.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08-02
On August 2, 2026, volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi released a video reporting that an unidentified man had been staying and working at a local scrap recycling station in Zhuolu County, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, for as long as 16 years, and called on police to verify his identity and help him find his family.
Location: Zhangjiakou, Hebei · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-08-02
On August 2, 2026, an official promotional poster for the earthquake early warning feature pushed by the National Emergency Broadcast of China Media Group was detected by tech-savvy netizens as containing watermarks from OpenAI's generative tools and Google's SynthID.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08
Companies such as “Gangganghao Film and Television” obtain real people's likeness authorizations through AI digital artist contracts and AI live-action short drama actor recruitment, and charge authorization fees by the number of short dramas or by time.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08
In late August, top business KTV venues in Hangzhou's Shangcheng, Gongshu and Xihu districts, such as Skyline and Nahatun, were sealed and shut down one after another. Rumors circulated that all KTVs in Hangzhou had closed, but in fact only high-end business KTVs were shut down.
Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08
In the summer of 2026, Hefei, Bozhou, Changchun, Guilin and other places successively carried out inspection campaigns targeting entertainment venues.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08
In August 2026, podcast host Zhong Shu, who had previously gained popularity through an exclusive interview with director Nolan, was called out by multiple netizens, who alleged that a large number of his in-depth podcast scripts were direct machine translations plagiarized from well-known foreign programs.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-08
In August 2026, a vice president of the Huarui Group in Heze, Shandong, posted a video publicly questioning the fairness of the bidding evaluation for school meal ingredients in Mudan District. He claimed that his company's bid was lower than the winning trading enterprise but still lost the bid, and demanded an explanation from the local Education and Sports Bureau.
Location: Heze, Shandong · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-29
On July 28 and 29, Banyuantan, a magazine supervised by the Publicity Department of the CCP Central Committee, published two videos on Douyin criticizing public opinion handling tactics such as "blocking and deleting posts" and "confusing the public." After the videos were released, the comment section was heavily scrubbed, leaving only a few comments.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-28
On July 28, 2026, Ban Yue Tan, a journal of the CCP Central Propaganda Department, released a video calling for vigilance against a suppressive view of public opinion. The comment section was instantly flooded with tens of thousands of netizens who spammed protests over the Jieyang dog abuse incident and called for the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to be dispatched; the account immediately turned on comment selection.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Verifying · View causal chain →
2026-07-28
On July 28, 2026, netizens exposed the poor sanitary conditions at the Shengwei Food Factory in Yuhong District, Shenyang, Liaoning. Maggots were found swarming in the food packaging area that supplies buffets and in the gaps of turnover trays, raising concerns about food safety in the catering supply chain.
Location: Shenyang, Liaoning · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-07-28
On July 28, Southern Daily published a commentary article revealing that Shaanxi's culture and tourism authorities had been subjected to days of continuous telephone harassment by netizens calling themselves "pseudo-historians," who demanded the demolition of related cultural relics and historic sites on the grounds that the Tang Dynasty never existed.
Location: Shaanxi · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-27
On July 27, 2026, well-known online blogger Lu Kewen pointed out that China's finances can hardly sustain current pension expenditures and predicted that they would inevitably be cut across the board in the future; shortly after the remarks were published, they were taken down and deleted by the platform.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-07-27
On July 27, 2026, the Acheng District Government Service Center in Harbin, Heilongjiang was exposed for setting up an extremely low, seatless Ding Yizhen-style window. After the story gained traction online, staff from the department involved privately messaged a self-media blogger, admitting it was true and requesting that the video be taken down.
Location: Harbin, Heilongjiang · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-07-26
From August 12, 2026, it was widely reported online that Zhao Haifeng, a China Merchants Shekou executive in Zhejiang, and Yu Tingdong, deputy head of Hangzhou's Binjiang District, allegedly committed sexual assault and seriously injured a woman at a business drinking gathering; the official's résumé was taken down.
Location: 浙江省杭州市滨江区 · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-07-23
On July 23, 2026, the Cyberspace Administration of China and the Ministry of Emergency Management jointly issued a notice, deploying a special campaign to rectify illegal and harmful information related to disaster incidents during the flood season, severely cracking down on online speech concerning disasters. On the same day, the Ministry of Public Security publicized 20 typical cases of disaster-related rumors.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-07-22
In late July 2026, a doctoral student at a university in Chongqing publicly accused their supervisor under their real name on social platforms of long-term personal humiliation and appropriation of research achievements, revealing chat records in which the supervisor said the student was like an ant, sparking public attention to supervisor-student relationships in higher education.
Location: Chongqing · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-21
When the CCTV-affiliated account “Yuyuantian” posted photos of the South China Sea standoff, it re‑edited the image to erase the “Chinese People's Armed Police” label on the loudspeaker; after netizens raised doubts, it opened a comment highlight.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-21
On July 21, 2026, in response to the Chinese official media China Daily releasing an AI animation that caricatured Filipinos as monkeys, the Philippine mainstream media Forum Daily publicly posted an image of Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh on social platforms as a public opinion counterattack.
Location: Philippines · Importance III · Verification: Verifying · View causal chain →
2026-07-21
On July 21, 2026, netizens noticed that Yuanyuantantian, a new media account under CCTV, deliberately erased the Chinese Armed Police markings on a loudspeaker when it published official propaganda images of a maritime standoff in the South China Sea. After facing questions from netizens, it turned on comment selection.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-07-21
On July 21, 2026, Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Jing Quan publicly responded to the controversial animation published by state media China Daily that used monkeys to allude to Filipinos, arguing that the content was an independent act of the media and had nothing to do with the Chinese government.
Location: Manila, Philippines · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-07-19
On July 19, 2026, Shanghai was hit by torrential to exceptionally heavy rain caused by strong thunderstorm clouds. Roads in Yangpu, Hongkou and other areas were severely flooded, shops were inundated, vehicles stalled, and residents questioned the slow response of the emergency management departments.
Location: 上海市杨浦区 · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-07-17
The Xinhua News Agency's Ban Yue Tan magazine published an investigative report, exposing that public officials within the CCP system use their positions to obtain internal secrets in advance about officials being promoted or being arrested by the disciplinary committee, and then post them online in the form of “official resumes” or homophonic coded short videos, charging fees.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-07-17
On July 17, 2026, more than 50 international human rights and press freedom organizations, including Reporters Without Borders, Safeguard Defenders, and Chinese Human Rights Defenders, issued a joint statement calling on the Thai government to urgently halt the deportation of Chinese exiled investigative journalist Bai Zhaodong.
Location: Bangkok, Thailand · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-17
On July 17, 2026, Mandy, manager of the independent bookshop Liu Xia Bookshop, who had earlier been taken away in handcuffs during a search operation by the Hong Kong Police's National Security Department, along with two other arrested employees, were granted bail pending investigation and left the police station.
Location: Hong Kong · Importance III · Verification: Verifying · View causal chain →
2026-07-17
In July 2026, Party media Banyuetan disclosed that Duan, a public servant at a government organ in Guiyang, ran 9 WeChat official accounts, using information advantages within the system to predict officials' downfalls before official announcements and drive traffic to charge group-joining fees, sparking discussion on regulatory systems.
Location: Guiyang, Guizhou · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-07-16
On July 16, 2026, the Philippine government issued a statement strongly condemning an AI animation published by Chinese official media China Daily that depicted Filipinos as monkeys, accusing the video of being filled with racist and dehumanizing propaganda and demanding its removal.
Location: Philippines · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-16
On July 16, 2026, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi published a report revealing that two people with disabilities of unknown identity in Jingshan City, Jingmen, Hubei, had been held by a local rice mill and a scrap station for periods ranging from several years to 20 years, reduced to unpaid forced labor and subjected to abuse.
Location: Jingmen, Hubei · Importance IV · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-07-15
On July 15, 2026, the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force searched the independent bookstores "Lau Ha Shuk Se" and "Tin Yuen Shuk Uk", arrested five staff members and persons in charge on suspicion of committing the sedition offense under Article 23 of the Basic Law, and seized multiple boxes of books.
Location: Hong Kong · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-15
On July 15, 2026, an AITO owner posted a video revealing that when the vehicle was in danger, pressing the SOS button failed to connect to the backend emergency call, and the in-car screen displayed a notice that the account was in arrears and calls could not be made, questioning whether the vehicle has serious safety hazards.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-14
Southern Weekend reported on July 14 about the dispatch, equipment failures, and command failures before the collapse of the Liulan Reservoir in Guangxi, revealing long-standing hidden dangers. The report was quickly deleted by censors after its publication.
Location: 广西壮族自治区 · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-14
On July 14, 2026, Southern Weekly published an investigative report revealing inside details including the gate motor failure before the breach of Liulan Reservoir and the station chief calling the mayor 11 times without getting through; after causing a huge sensation, the report was deleted and banned across the entire internet within 24 hours.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-14
On July 14, 2026, a violent armed assault occurred in Henggang Sub-district, Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong. A man beat passers-by on the street with a stick. The police officers who arrived at the scene were accused of cowering, doing nothing but filming, and even being chased by the attacker, causing an uproar of public opinion.
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-07-13
On July 13, the Cyberspace Administration Bureau of China's Ministry of Public Security announced 25 typical cases of illegal and criminal activities involving online rumors related to floods and disasters. Among them, 4 people were criminally detained, and 23 people received administrative penalties.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-07-13
On July 13, 2026, the Cybersecurity Bureau of China's Ministry of Public Security reported 25 cases of online speech violations and crimes related to floods and disasters, in which 4 people were criminally detained and 23 people were given administrative penalties, strengthening control over disaster-related public opinion.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-07-11
On July 11, 2026, a cattle farm in Qincun, Linzhang County, Handan, Hebei was exposed for illegally employing people with disabilities of unknown identity who lived next to the cattle pen. When a volunteer blogger went to investigate and report the matter, she was followed by the farm owner, who grabbed her car door and threatened her.
Location: Handan, Hebei · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-10
On July 10, 2026, Bloomberg reported that China's local governments had completed about 94% of the issuance quota for special refinancing bonds used to swap hidden debt, but the overall debt pressure on localities remains severe.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-10
On July 10, China Daily posted an AI-generated video on Facebook depicting Filipinos in a humiliating image. The Philippine government strongly condemned it on July 16 and demanded its removal, while the Chinese side said the media's actions were unrelated to the government.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-08
On July 8, 2026, it was reported online that multiple performance venues in Shanghai received notices from the Changning District culture and tourism authorities requiring them to adjust their set lists and prohibiting the playing of Japanese-language songs, sparking discussion among performing arts professionals.
Location: 上海市长宁区 · Importance III · Verification: Verifying · View causal chain →
2026-07-02
On July 2, 2026, Lam Wing-kee, who had been secretly detained by the Chinese Communist Party for eight months over the Causeway Bay Books incident and rebuilt the bookstore after fleeing to Taiwan, died of illness at Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei at the age of 70; Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council and people from various walks of life expressed deep condolences one after another.
Location: Taipei, Taiwan · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-07
China Daily released an AI-generated video, which sparked protests from the Philippines after it allegedly depicted the Philippines as a monkey.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07
After the exposure of Han Shihui's school equity being transferred for two yuan, multiple public officials were reported for illegally embezzling school assets.
Location: Hengshui, Hebei · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-07-01
On July 1, 2026, a child abuse incident occurred at the International Baby Kindergarten in Yongqing County, Langfang, Hebei. Surveillance footage shows teachers inside the kindergarten successively slapping, pulling the hair of, and kicking the young children. The footage was exposed on July 10.
Location: Langfang, Hebei · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-07
Recently, netizens photographed several people staging photos of doing sanitation work, and the photos drew comments such as “Doing it well is not as good as photographing it well.”
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-30
Bars across multiple locations in Shanghai were targeted for inspections during the World Cup matches. Police chat groups instructed restaurant bars broadcasting the matches to ensure that "inappropriate situations do not occur."
Location: Shanghai · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-29
An influencer with over one million followers stated that they donated 19060 yuan to the Han Hong Love Charity Foundation in 2022, but the record could not be found on the official website. They also questioned the Apple computer procurement in the foundation's 2025 audit report.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-29
People's Daily published an article stating that an MCN agency organized internet trolls to create negative public opinion about film and television dramas, causing box office damage to the movie "Four Crossings." Police have arrested 12 people.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-29
In June 2026, Zhizhi Middle School in Hengshui, Hebei was exposed for enforcing strict hairstyle inspections, forbidding students from entering the school with any hairstyle other than a buzz cut; after a student filmed a video disclosing this, the school's teachers sent private messages intimidating the student in the name of the Cyberspace Administration of China, demanding that the post be deleted within a time limit.
Location: Hengshui, Hebei · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-29
On June 29, 2026, in response to the online rumor that "CITIC executive Liu Junhua flew a plane into Beijing's CITIC Tower," CITIC urgently released a business interview video of Liu Junhua of CITIC Wealth Management to clear up the false reports.
Location: Beijing, China · Importance II · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-06-28
On June 28, 2026, regarding a case in which a woman was killed due to a family dispute in a residential compound in Gaoyou, Jiangsu, the Beijing News published a report calling the homicide a “death incident,” triggering widespread criticism from netizens that official media are abusing vague neologisms to evade the nature of violent crime.
Location: Gaoyou, Jiangsu · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-26
On June 26, 2026, a consumer exposed through a video that multiple Whisper sanitary pads, a P&G brand purchased from the official Taobao flagship store, had obvious yellow-brown stains on their surfaces; when contacted, P&G customer service was unable to explain the cause of the stains and did not acknowledge a quality problem.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-25
On June 25, 2026, media reported progress in the case of a 13-year-old girl in Yuncheng, Shanxi, who was raped and whose case police had previously refused to file; amid continued online exposure and attention, the criminal suspect involved has been formally placed under criminal detention by police.
Location: Yuncheng, Shanxi · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-23
On June 28, 2026, media reports revealed that after Biyang County in Henan adopted a siphoning-style, profit-driven enforcement model, similar practices also appeared in several places in Nanyang, Henan, where cold-chain trucks were lured to detour across the border only to be seized — 213 tonnes of frozen goods were confiscated within 47 days and auctioned off for cash to be turned over to the state treasury.
Location: Nanyang, Henan · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-17
On June 17, 2026, quality problems were exposed at key projects along the Shandong Jiwei Expressway, where concrete bases could be snapped apart by hand. Local authorities announced that a joint investigation team had been stationed on site and a third party commissioned to conduct comprehensive testing.
Location: Jinan, Shandong · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2026-06-17
On June 17, a netizen in Shaanxi went to a hospital of traditional Chinese medicine for a consultation and found that the attending doctor opened the AI app Doubao during the consultation, using the software to ask about the diagnosis of the condition.
Location: Shaanxi · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, media reported that Yibin police in Sichuan traveled across provinces to Shenyang, in the name of cracking down on fake Wuliangye, and seized 159 bottles of Moutai worth over 1.2 million yuan from a liquor dealer, while threatening the dealer's personal freedom to demand 220,000 yuan, claiming that they handled the case for profit.
Location: Shenyang, Liaoning · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, Bloomberg reported that China's new home prices fell 0.2% month-on-month in May, while the decline in existing home prices was the largest in three months, showing that pressure from the property market adjustment has yet to ease.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-15
On June 15, 2026, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi posted a video exposing that a contractor in Gaoche Village, Huangpi District, Wuhan, allegedly purchased a disabled person for 10,000 yuan and forced them into hard manual labor for 20 years.
Location: Wuhan, Hubei · Importance IV · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-06-15
On June 15, 2026, Bloomberg reported that China's tactics toward Taiwan have shifted: while the frequency of military aircraft circling the island has been halved, it has for the first time dispatched a Ministry of Transport survey vessel and a fireboat to carry out gray-zone patrols on a regular basis in the waters east of Taiwan.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-06-15
Jin Ze's girlfriend Li Zifeng posted his chat records from before his death on Douyin, saying that Jin Ze suffered a myocardial infarction due to high-intensity work, and that he was powerless when subjected to a casting couch by iQiyi vice president Liu Tao.
Location: Hangzhou · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-14
On June 14, 2026, a netizen in Langfang, Hebei posted a video on a social platform, reporting in his real name that the deputy director of the Sanhe Public Security Bureau in charge of economic crime investigation had failed to file cases and failed to investigate after filing in multiple economic cases.
Location: Langfang, Hebei · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06-13
On June 13, 2026, after the chain restaurant brand Yujian Xiaomian was condemned across the internet for filing a cross-province lawsuit against a husband-and-wife noodle shop in Nanyang, Yujian Xiaomian, for trademark infringement, it announced that it was withdrawing the lawsuit; the founder subsequently issued a public apology and gifted the trademark.
Location: Nanyang, Henan · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-06-13
On June 13, 2026, a video posted online by a netizen in Gansu showed that when they used a China Telecom campus phone inside a school to dial the 110 emergency number, the device's screen displayed a message prohibiting calls to this number.
Location: Gansu · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-06-12
On June 12, 2026, a tech content creator on Bilibili revealed that a video in which the brand was not mentioned and the footage was blurred was hit with a lawyer's letter from Red Magic and taken down, questioning whether relevant smartphone makers are using the Cyberspace Administration of China's online review guidelines as a pretext to suppress independent oversight.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-06-10
On June 27, 2026, CCTV issued a statement protecting its exclusive broadcast rights for the US-Canada-Mexico World Cup, banning the distribution of clips. Subsequently, the social media accounts of well-known football fan influencer "Tuiqian Ge" ("Refund Bro") and others were punished with platform bans for posting match footage.
Location: Beijing, China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-06-09
The New York Times reports that a large number of short videos have emerged on Chinese short-video platforms Douyin and Xiaohongshu in which Chinese companies promote North Korean-made goods and advertise cheap North Korean labor; such economic and trade cooperation is suspected of violating United Nations Security Council sanctions prohibiting the establishment of joint venture entities with North Korea.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-06
On June 16, 2026, an anti-counterfeiting blogger released an authoritative third-party national standard test report confirming that a Decathlon jacket purchased through Pinduoduo's 10 Billion Subsidy channel was counterfeit, and disclosed the source of the fake goods.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-05-27
On May 27, 2026, the academic fraud-exposing blogger "Geng Tongxue" publicly accused journal papers published by National Outstanding Young Scholar (Jieqing) scholars at Central South University and Tongji University of containing duplicated, fabricated data, and revealed that he had previously received a call from a middleman demanding money to settle the matter privately and take the video down.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-05-26
On May 26, 2026, a Meituan delivery rider in Heilongjiang revealed that he got into an argument with a university section chief while yielding on a narrow road because he did not give way first, was verbally abused by the other party, and was subsequently fired directly by the station leadership without any investigation.
Location: Daqing, Heilongjiang · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-05-26
In late May 2026, a blogger revealed that on the Douyin platform there were violating communities using obscure code words such as "wearing a little cotton-padded jacket" to exchange and share experiences of sexually assaulting underage girls; on the 27th, Douyin responded saying it had indefinitely banned the relevant accounts and group chats.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-05-26
On May 26, 2026, online reports claimed that an employee of China Chengxin Pengyuan Credit Rating Co., Ltd. had passed away due to work. Afterwards, the company unexpectedly issued a statement calling on all employees to learn from her dedication and professionalism and to jointly pursue steady development, triggering strong public questioning.
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-05-25
On June 13, 2026, Mingde Qizhi Technology Co., Ltd. in Xi'an, Shaanxi was exposed for emptying its office area in the middle of the night and going off the grid, having accumulated arrears of 2 to 4 months' wages totaling millions of yuan owed to more than 200 employees.
Location: Xi'an, Shaanxi · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-05-25
On May 25, 2026, it was reported online that an employee of Shenzhen Haorui Technology Co., Ltd. died suddenly in a dormitory after working 13 consecutive days. The family said their work-injury application was rejected by the Social Security Bureau, drawing online attention.
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong · Importance II · Verification: Hearsay · View causal chain →
2026-05-05
A blogger filed a real-name report alleging that data fabrication was suspected in a paper published in 2020 by Professor Kang Tiebang, deputy director of the Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center; Sun Yat-sen University responded that an investigation has been launched.
Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-05
When former US President Trump visited Beijing, he personally requested that Xi Jinping release Jimmy Lai, but did not receive a positive response.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-05
In May 2026, Nie Huihua, a professor at Renmin University of China, published an article pointing out that about 80% of global mining disaster deaths occur in China, and that mining companies with political connections closely tied to power have accident death rates two to three times higher than ordinary enterprises.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-04
In April 2026, the Ningbo Fenghua entertainment venue was dealt with by local authorities and ordered to suspend operations for providing paid companion services.
Location: Ningbo, Zhejiang · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-03-28
On March 28, a Starbucks employee in Shaanxi revealed that the company was docking 13th- and 14th-month salaries under the guise of performance to force employees to resign; if they refused to leave, the company would review surveillance footage to find faults, and district managers would come to the store to negotiate dismissals. The employee subsequently deleted the exposé post.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-03-21
On the fourth anniversary of the China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 crash on March 21, former pilot Liu Wei published a statement saying that the cause of death of the 132 souls remains unknown to this day, and that the authorities block the public from seeking the truth on the grounds of "for everyone's own good."
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-02-12
On February 12, former journalist Gao Qinrong released a video review stating that in 1998, because he exposed a 280 million yuan vanity project in Yuncheng, Shanxi, which prompted hundreds of media outlets to follow up, he subsequently paid a heavy price.
Location: Yuncheng · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-02-02
On February 2, 2026, the Jinjiang Branch of the Chengdu Public Security Bureau announced that former investigative journalist Liu Hu and self-media person Wu Yingjiao were subject to criminal coercive measures on suspicion of fabricating accusations to frame others and illegal business operations. The two had previously published reports alleging that Pu Fayou, the Party Secretary of Pujang County, was suspected of illegally seizing corporate assets. The incident sparked condemnation from journalist organizations and public opinion both at home and abroad. On February 14, the police, citing the application of the two individuals, changed the coercive measures to release on bail pending trial in accordance with Article 67 of the Criminal Procedure Law. On September 10, 2026, defense lawyer Zhou Ze released the decision of the Jinjiang Branch to lift the bail pending trial, citing 'changes in the case circumstances,' and Liu Hu would not need to stand trial. Liu Hu had previously filed real-name reports against several high-ranking officials between 2012 and 2013, leading to multiple detentions.
Location: Chengdu · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2026-02
In February 2026, the Administrative Examination and Approval Bureau of Xiangcheng District, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, acting on relevant opinions from the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, revoked the administrative permit for a commercial performance featuring Na Yina, citing her designation as a 'disgraced artist'.
Location: Xiangyang, Hubei · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-01-11
On January 11, an 8-meter-tall Marilyn Monroe statue inside the Central Avenue tourism and culture shopping center in Dalian, Liaoning, was quietly removed. Netizens posted comparison photos of the scene on Xiaohongshu (RedNote) and Douyin, and mall staff claimed they only noticed it when they arrived for work that day.
Location: Dalian · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026-01-06
Host Liu Wen once spoke up for food delivery couriers and questioned Meituan's high commission rates. On January 6, she posted a video stating that her consumer fraud rights defense failed to receive compensation; instead, she was ruled as defaming, with the court issuing a prejudgment and sentencing her to apologize for one month and pay 500,000 RMB without her knowledge.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026
The video says that the Hebei Cyberspace Administration of China recently issued notices to all counties and cities, demanding that they manage their jurisdictions and further strengthen control over people who speak online.
Location: Hebei · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2026
In 2026, Li Ji revealed that actor Zhang Yixing's offline performances had been suspended by the National Theatre of China. Zhang Yixing's studio subsequently denied the claim, saying it would defend its rights through legal channels.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025-12-21
On December 21, Guo Dianli, a former curator at the Nanjing Museum, filed a real-name report against former director Xu Huping, accusing him of massively and illegally embezzling and smuggling cultural relics relocated from the Palace Museum during his tenure, and selling them to overseas businessmen and domestic artifact dealers for huge profits.
Location: Nanjing · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025-12-03
In December 2025, the Cyberspace Administration of China announced that Hu Chenfeng had long posted so-called "Android people" and "Apple people" remarks on multiple platforms that "incited group confrontation," and that the relevant accounts on each platform had been closed.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2025-12
In December 2025, members of the public reported to the central ecological and environmental protection inspection team that more than 100 chemical enterprises in three townships of Dongguang County had no permits and other problems; the local response said the claims were untrue. An approval officer at the county Emergency Management Bureau told CCTV reporters that they were not shut down because they pay taxes to the county, and the county would not allow them to be banned.
Location: Cangzhou, Hebei · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025-11-16
Recently, a blogger on Douyin used official reports as source material to expose insiders and connected personnel at China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom and China Broadcasting Network who illegally issued SIM cards and became the hidden hands behind telecom fraud. The video was reported and taken down by the carriers on the grounds of reputation infringement.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025-09-16
In late September 2025, influencer Hu Chenfeng's accounts on multiple platforms including Weibo, Douyin and Bilibili were banned or shut down.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025-09
AITO has filed a report with the public security authorities over relevant online remarks, saying that those spreading rumors may bear criminal liability.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2025-08-04
On August 4, China's Cyberspace Administration announced the investigation and handling of a batch of so-called accounts that maliciously bad-mouthed companies, and HarmonyOS Smart Life (Hongmeng Zhixing) subsequently issued a statement in response to the relevant complaints.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2025-08-01
On August 1, a truck blogger posted a video questioning whether Li Auto's promotional video was faked, saying a truck's frame can bear over a hundred tons of cargo, and that a family sedan ramming a big truck is a huge joke, warning consumers not to be misled.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2025-07
The Luxeed Legal Department issued a statement calling on the public not to believe or spread rumors and to jointly maintain a clean and clear online environment.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2025-06
An AITO M9 in Wenling, Zhejiang caught fire from its undercarriage, and AITO user services responded by saying not to believe or spread rumors.
Location: 浙江省台州市温岭市 · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2025-03-17
It is reported online that the 13-year-old daughter of Baidu Vice President Xie Guangjun, a fan of South Korean star Jang Wonyoung, doxxed a pregnant netizen on Weibo following a controversy over comments about the star, and posted information showing her father's monthly salary of 220,000 yuan.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2024-09
In mid-September 2024, as Academician Wang Zhenyi was awarded the "Medal of the Republic," videos from self-media outlets visiting Zhu Yuejun, who practices medicine in poverty in rural Wugang, Hunan, went viral on platforms like Douyin and Weibo. The stark contrast between his past role as the first author of a top-tier leukemia paper and his current status as a village doctor living on social security caused a sensation online, rapidly evolving into a public opinion storm regarding "stolen achievements and academic lords suppressing those from humble backgrounds."
Location: 湖南省邵阳市武冈市 · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2024-08-08
On August 8, 2024, lawyer Yi Shenghua released case materials, exposing how Shanxi Aorui Biomaterial Company colluded with funeral homes in Sichuan, Shandong, Guangxi and other places to illegally purchase and dismember thousands of cremated corpses for producing allogeneic bone implant materials.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2024-08
Hui Jian published a post on a WeChat public account, accusing Liu Ren, president of the Cambodian Anhui Chamber of Commerce, of violent loan-sharking in casinos, beating a renovation boss to death, running telecom fraud parks, and armed transnational crime.
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2024-07
Two years ago, a scandal broke in China over industrial tanker trucks being used to carry edible oil. The account of Han Futao, the reporter involved in the coverage, was deactivated, and the related movement-tracking lookup feature was taken offline.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2024-02-02
On February 2, 2024, People's Daily published an interview with Koppe, a Communist Party official from Germany, and ran it as a headline, sparking large-scale irony and an opinion storm among Chinese netizens against the backdrop of a stock market crash and economic downturn.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2024
A Caixin interview cited data stating that as of the end of 2024, approximately 180 million urban and rural residents were receiving a basic pension, averaging 246 yuan per month; in 2024, the average monthly pension for urban employees was approximately 3,825 yuan, more than 15 times the former.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2024
According to the program, as the Chinese Communist Party takes a hardline diplomatic line, the overseas actions of influencers represented by Tietou and the Little Pinks have escalated in step with it.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2024
Guo Youcai, who originally ran a barbecue business in Heze, was seized upon by capital as a selling point and made famous for singing on livestreams around 2024, becoming an overnight sensation; at the time it was rumored online that he could earn several million yuan a month.
Location: Heze, Shandong · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2024
In 2024, blogger Hui Jian publicly reported Liu Ren, president of the Cambodia Anhui Chamber of Commerce, for telecom fraud; afterwards the article was deleted and he lost contact. Acquaintances told Jiemian News that Liu Ren's side had proposed paying for post deletion before calling the police, and Hui Jian was criminally detained on extortion charges; reporters contacted multiple parties but received no response.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2024
After becoming an internet celebrity by singing on livestreams, Guo Youcai went south to start his own company. He once invited Zhao Yazhi to attend the opening, and it was a sensation for a time. Afterwards, his business failed and he lost all his savings.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2023-11
The South Korea National Cyber Security Center revealed that 18 Korean-language websites have been disguised as local South Korean news media, with an operation style highly similar to fake news websites discovered in Italy.
Location: South Korea · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2023-10
Italian media outlet Il Foglio was the first to discover that several websites disguised as Italian local news outlets for Rome, Venice, and other cities were heavily republishing and embedding pro-Beijing and anti-American narratives.
Location: Italy · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2023-05-15
Beijing's cultural law enforcement authorities determined that the actor House seriously insulted the people's armed forces during a performance, confiscating Xiaoguo Culture's illegal gains and imposing a total fine of more than 14.67 million yuan; Xiaoguo Culture subsequently announced an indefinite suspension of all offline performances nationwide.
Location: Beijing · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2022-04
In April 2022, Douyin banned the account of influencer "Russian Nana" (Na Yina) on the grounds of "abusing platform props" and "impersonating a fake persona." CCTV.com previously published a commentary on this.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2022-03-15
The 2022 315 Gala first exposed production chaos at multiple pickled vegetable companies in Huarong and Junshan, Hunan, with workers stepping barefoot into the pickled greens and cigarette butts thrown about; the brands involved issued urgent apologies and terminated cooperation.
Location: Yueyang, Hunan · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2021-09-02
On September 2, 2021, the National Radio and Television Administration issued a notice requiring television and online audiovisual platforms to take political literacy as a criterion for personnel selection, specifying that "personnel with incorrect political stances who are alienated from the Party and the country must be resolutely rejected."
Location: Beijing · Importance IV · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2021-09
Sima Nan seized on issues such as Lenovo's restructuring, state-owned assets, and executive compensation, releasing multiple videos in a row to attack the company, thereby gaining enormous traffic, accompanied by the operations of a behind-the-scenes PR team.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2021-08-30
On August 30, 2021, the Chinese Academy of History published a lengthy article publicly naming Gao Xiaosom, systematically cataloging his remarks on Chiang Kai-shek, the Xi'an Incident, the Yasukuni Shrine, and other topics, and classifying them as "historical nihilism"; around the same time, programs such as Xiaosom's Talk could not be searched normally on some platforms.
Location: Beijing · Importance IV · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2021-08-26
On August 26, 2021, Zhao Wei's works were suddenly taken down by major video platforms in mainland China, her Weibo super topic was banned, her name was removed from cast lists, and related entries on Baidu Baike were deleted or altered.
Location: China · Importance V · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2021-06-24
After its management was arrested and its assets frozen, Apple Daily was forced to cease publication, with its final issue printing 1 million copies.
Location: Hong Kong, China · Importance V · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2021
Chen Peisi serves as the first mentor on CCTV's Gold Medal Comedy Class, returning to the CCTV variety stage after more than 20 years away.
Location: Beijing · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2020-12-17
When Bai Yansong responded to students' questions about their future and employment pressure during a speech at a university, he rhetorically listed hypothetical scenarios such as low housing prices and being able to find a job easily. The remarks triggered widespread mockery among netizens online the following spring.
Location: Lanzhou, Gansu · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2020-08-10
Hong Kong police conducted their first large-scale raid on the headquarters of Next Digital, paving the way for the subsequent closure of Apple Daily.
Location: Hong Kong, China · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2020-01-19
Unable to tolerate the cover-up, Yan Limeng used overseas platforms such as Lude Media to disclose the truth that COVID-19 is human-to-human transmissible, has no natural intermediate host, and that the CCP is concealing the epidemic.
Location: United States · Importance IV · Verification: Disputed · View causal chain →
2020-01-01
On January 1, 2020, the Wuhan Public Security Bureau issued a notice stating that 8 people who had spread rumors were being investigated and punished according to law. The notice was broadcast on CCTV, and Li Wenliang's epidemic warning was among them.
Location: Wuhan · Importance IV · Verification: Official claim · View causal chain →
2019
Online reports claim that Shen Haixiong arranged for Tong Liya to host the program "Walking on the Road Home," which tells the story of her life.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2018-03-21
After the merger of CCTV, China National Radio, and China Radio International to form the China Media Group, Shen Haixiong was appointed as its first president and Party secretary.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2018-01-10
In January 2018, Guangzhou doctor Tan Qindong was arrested across provincial lines by police in Liangcheng County, Inner Mongolia, and detained for nearly 100 days after writing a popular science article questioning the false advertising and medication risks of Hongmao Medicinal Liquor. The case was ultimately dropped due to insufficient evidence and concluded with a settlement.
Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2017-06-30
The 'General Principles for Content Review of Online Audiovisual Programs' were released, requiring online audiovisual programs to be reviewed before broadcast and strictly restricting subjective speculative commentary, mocking serious topics, and negative controversial topics.
Location: Beijing · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2016-07
After Roast Season 1, hosted by Zhou Jie, drew about 30 million views within three days of going online, it suddenly disappeared from the platform; eight months later it was relaunched after its offensive angle was revised.
Location: China · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2016
In 2016, Xi Jinping made clear at the symposium on the Party's news and public opinion work that media sponsored by the Party and the government must bear the Party's name, that media work must embody the Party's will and reflect the Party's positions, and he emphasized giving priority to positive publicity.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2013-10-19
On October 19, 2013, New Express Daily reporter Chen Yongzhou was criminally detained across provincial lines by Changsha police on suspicion of damaging commercial reputation after publishing reports critical of Zoomlion; the newspaper subsequently ran "Please release him" on its front page.
Location: Changsha, Hunan · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2013-08-19
On August 19, 2013, internet promoter Qin Zhihui (online alias Qin Huohuo) was criminally detained by Beijing police on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble and illegal business operations, becoming the landmark case of that year's special campaign against online rumors.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2013-01
Southern Weekend's New Year's address "Chinese Dream, Constitutional Dream" was withdrawn by the Propaganda Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, marking an intensification of media control.
Location: China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2012-10-25
The New York Times published a world-shaking investigative report revealing that relatives of Wen Jiabao's family secretly controlled assets worth approximately USD 2.7 billion.
Location: United States · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2012
Bloomberg disclosed changes in the asset of the property above Shenzhen Dongmen Old Street subway station based on business registration information.
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2011-09-20
On September 20, 2011, Jin Xing posted on Weibo that she had received notice from the Zhejiang Radio and Television Bureau barring her from serving as a judge, the reason being her transgender experience.
Location: Zhejiang · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2011-06-21
On the evening of June 21, 2011, Guo Meimei showed off a villa and luxury cars on Weibo under the identity of "General Manager of Commerce of the Red Cross Society of China," sparking public questions about the Red Cross and the transparency of charitable work.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2010-10-16
On the evening of October 16, 2010, a drunk-driving hit-and-run occurred at the new campus of Hebei University, leaving two female students, one dead and one injured. After the driver, Li Qiming, was caught, he shouted “My dad is Li Gang,” causing an uproar in public opinion.
Location: Baoding, Hebei · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2010
After Li Mengmeng's case spread on Weibo, it drew public attention. About ten days later, she was offered admission to the accounting program at Henan University of Economics and Law, and the responsible parties were dealt with.
Location: Henan · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2009-11-19
In November 2009, Southern Weekly left its front-page headline blank, using an empty layout to protest the propaganda department's forced removal of an editorial accompanying an interview with Obama.
Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong · Importance III · Verification: Verifying · View causal chain →
2009-08-14
On August 14, 2009, Sina Weibo began closed beta testing; on September 25, it officially added @, direct messages, comments, and reposting functions.
Location: China · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2009-05-10
Deng Yujiao, a hotel waitress in Badong County, Hubei, fought back against officials who forced her to provide "special services," resulting in one death. Amid intense nationwide public attention and online support, she was ultimately found by the court to have exceeded the bounds of self-defense and was exempted from criminal punishment.
Location: 湖北省恩施州巴东县 · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2009-05-10
On the evening of May 10, 2009, Deng Yujiao, a hotel attendant in Yesanguan Town, Badong County, Hubei, stabbed one person to death and wounded another after being pestered by officials; after the case spread through the internet, it drew nationwide attention.
Location: 湖北省恩施州巴东县 · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2008-12
Photos of Zhou Jiugong smoking famous-brand cigarettes and wearing a luxury watch during a meeting were posted online, and netizens used them to investigate his consumer goods and income.
Location: Nanjing, Jiangsu · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2008-07-03
After the Yang Jia case occurred, artist Ai Weiwei published a series of posts on his blog, pressing questions about the details of Yang Jia's case, the circumstances of his mother being committed to a psychiatric hospital, and the violations of procedure during the trial; his blog at one point became a gathering point for online public opinion. After that, he spoke out for Yang Jia multiple times.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2006-01-24
On January 24, 2006, Ice Point Weekly of China Youth Daily was ordered to suspend publication by the Publicity Department of the Communist Youth League Central Committee because it had published an article by Yuan Weishi questioning history textbooks; editor-in-chief Li Datong and deputy editor-in-chief Lu Yuegang were dismissed, and neither of them returned when the publication resumed on March 1.
Location: Beijing · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2005-04
In April 2005, Suqian in Jiangsu publicly recruited 26 online commentators, one example of localities building teams of internet commentators.
Location: Suqian · Importance II · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2004-10
In October 2004, the Changsha Municipal Party Committee's External Propaganda Office set up a team of internet commentators with a base salary of 600 yuan per month, supplemented by pay based on posting volume, five mao per post — hence the term "five mao."
Location: Changsha · Importance III · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2004-07-19
After being released on July 19, 2004, Jiang Yanyong remained under long-term surveillance and in a state of house arrest; on March 22, 2005 he regained freedom of movement, but was told he was barred from accepting interviews and given other restrictions, and approval to go abroad was not granted.
Location: Beijing · Importance IV · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
2004-03-19
On March 19, 2004, Guangdong courts sentenced Southern Metropolis Daily general manager Yu Huafeng to 12 years and Li Minying to 11 years in first instance for embezzlement, bribery and other crimes; editor-in-chief Cheng Yizhong was arrested the same day and released without charge about 4 months later, and the sentences of Yu and Li were later substantially reduced.
Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2003-06-20
After the Sun Zhigang case, on June 20, 2003, the State Council promulgated the Measures for the Administration of Assistance for Vagrants and Beggars with No Means of Support in Urban Areas, and the Measures for Custody and Repatriation were abolished as of August 1.
Location: Guangzhou · Importance V · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2003-04-25
In 2003, Southern Metropolis Daily's reporting on the Sun Zhigang case directly contributed to the abolition of China's custody and repatriation system.
Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2003-03-20
Hubei youth Sun Zhigang was sent to a custody station in Guangzhou for not carrying a temporary residence permit and was beaten to death. The incident spread rapidly across the internet and eventually led the State Council to abolish the custody and repatriation system.
Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2001-12-06
The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court ruled at first instance that China International Television Corporation had committed infringement, and ordered it to stop distribution, issue a public apology, and pay Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao more than 330,000 yuan in compensation.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
2000
Wu Zheng and Yang Lan took control of a Hong Kong-listed company and transformed it into Sunshine Culture, with Yang Lan serving as chairman. At the same time, she founded Sunshine TV, which was later granted access to some of China's cable networks.
Location: Hong Kong, China · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
1999
Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao filed a lawsuit in court against a company affiliated with CCTV for publishing and distributing discs containing their Spring Festival Gala sketches without permission, demanding an end to the infringement and compensation.
Location: Beijing · Importance III · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
1998
In 1998, Wu Zheng took office as Chief Operating Officer of Hong Kong's Asia Television, intervening in ATV's management and establishing cooperation between his company and institutions under the Chinese Ministry of Culture.
Location: Hong Kong, China · Importance II · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
1997
According to official Chinese statistics at the time, the number of internet users nationwide reached 620,000 in 1997, and computers with direct internet access reached 300,000 units, far exceeding official expectations.
Location: China · Importance I · Verification: Reported · View causal chain →
1996-03-31
On the night of March 31, 1996, Phoenix Television officially launched in Hung Hom, Hong Kong, unveiling its golden station logo. Its early shareholders included Today's Asia controlled by Liu Changle, Satellite Television under Rupert Murdoch, and Huaying International representing CCTV. Before the launch, Liu Changle reported the station's stance to Beijing, establishing Phoenix's special political affiliation and licensing mechanism.
Location: Hong Kong · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
1989-06-04
On the night of June 4, 1989, CCTV Evening News anchors Du Xian and Xue Fei wore dark clothing, speaking in extremely slow and subdued tones to broadcast the news of martial law troops entering the city, and were subsequently transferred from their posts.
Location: Beijing · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
1989-05-04
On May 4, 1989, reporters and editors from the People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Guangming Daily, and China Youth Daily took to Chang'an Avenue, carrying banners demanding that the news must tell the truth.
Location: Beijing · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →
1989-04
Because the World Economic Herald published an article commemorating Hu Yaobang, Shanghai Municipal Party Secretary Jiang Zemin ordered the article pulled and suspended editor-in-chief Qin Benli for self-reflection, sparking protests by journalists and students.
Location: Shanghai · Importance IV · Verification: Verified · View causal chain →