Dossier
Toutiao
Coverage of Toutiao in the Nexus archive.
- Translation: “Letting You Think You Haven’t Been Silenced is Crueler Than Deletion”
The article examines China's shadow-banning practice, a form of online censorship where posts appear successfully published to users but remain invisible to others. This technique is presented as psychologically more effective than overt deletion because it induces self-doubt rather than prompting direct criticism of the platform.