US confronts internet's disruptions, China feels vindicated

Xi Jinping created and empowered the cyberspace administration, which has subsumed many of the overlapping agencies that once governed content in cyberspace

In the United States (US), some of the world’s most powerful technology companies face rising pressure to do more to fight false information and stop foreign infiltration.

China, however, has watchdogs like Zhao Jinxu.

From his small town on the windswept grasslands of the Inner Mongolia region of China, Zhao, 27, scours the internet for calls to violence, fake news and pornography. He is one of a battalion of online “supervisors” whom Weibo, one of China’s biggest social media platforms, announced last month it would hire to help enforce China’s stringent limits on online content.

For years, the US and others saw this