The Chinese government is employing over 2 million workers to
monitor “the internet” according to state media.
The work these employees get assigned is, by using keywords to search through
the tens of millions of messages that are being sent everyday across popular
social media websites like Sina Weibo, Instant messaging app
WeChat, Tencent QQ etc.
The reason why the Chinese government has hired over 2 million
people is to prevent social unrest and limit criticism of the ruling
Community party and to clean the networks of rumors, in fear that the use of
social media could challenge the Communist party’s grip on power. In china
these workers have already received the name of “Web Police”. One of the
employees Tang Xiaotao described his job as the following
Source: AmongTech
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