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Twitter's controversial head of China leaves after eight monthsTwitter


Summary:
"twitter's manager for China, whose appointment just eight months ago sparked controversy, has announced her resignation." 
"Like other Western platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, Twitter is inaccessible in mainland China, blocked by the communist regime's vast system of internet censorship." 
Many media institutes are trying to reach china and pursuade them to reach a much more global audience. 
"Her resignation comes two months after the announcement of Twitter cut nine per cent of its global workforce and as the company struggles to attract new users." 
"Twitter is home to a very active community of Chinese intellectuals and dissidents posting from abroad and also from within the country through the use of virtual private networks." 

Key facts/ opinion: 
  • Chen said that over the past two years, Twitter's advertising base in the China region had grown almost 400 per cent.
  • In the 1980s and 1990s she worked as a computer engineer for the Chinese army.
My opinion:
I feel like now is the time that china opens themselves to a much more global market with a wider audience reach as well as allowing their citizens to reach external sources of media. Now is the day and age of sharing and freedom of speech and a communist government so strict with the media is uncalled for. They also have such a wide audience reach with their media it seems unfair it isnt the same the otherway out. 

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