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WeChat deleted accounts of student LGBTQ groups in China
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Massively popular Chinese social platform WeChat quietly deleted the accounts of several LGBTQ groups organized at major Chinese universities, _Reuters_reported on Tuesday_._The groups received warnings that they “violated community rules,” according to the_Associated Press_, but were not offered further explanation before their accounts were deleted.
The accounts aren’t viewable on WeChat, but users on Weibo (a Chinese analogue to Twitter) have collected a list of the several of the impacted groups, including ones run by students at Tsinghua University and Fudan University, _Insider_writes. We’ve reached out to WeChat’s owner and operator Tencent for comment on the deleted accounts and what rules the groups may have violated.