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WeChat or Weixin in Chinese (Chinese: 微信; pinyin: Wēixìn (listen ⓘ); lit. 'micro-message') [a] is a Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. First released in 2011, it became the world's largest standalone mobile app in 2018 [ 5 ] [ 6 ] with over 1 billion monthly active users .
For swaths of the U.S. with concentrated Chinese populations, WeChat is a way of life. President Trump's executive order banning the app could upend that.
WeChat is a highly popular social media app in China. Many American families depend on WeChat as a means of communicating with family and friends in China. [3]On August 6, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order, invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, seeking to ban WeChat in the U.S. in 45 days, due to its connections with the Chinese-owned Tencent.
For example, WeChat, a popular messaging and social media platform run by Tencent, uses semi-automated methods to monitor content sent between accounts, including images, checking for politically sensitive material, and will block said material from reaching the intended recipient, even if the sending account is non-Chinese. [30]
Moments (Chinese: 朋友圈 pinyin: péngyǒu quān) is a function of the smartphone app WeChat, launched on 19 April 2012 in the WeChat version 4.0. It serves new social-networking functions for Wechat users.
China’s most popular social media service has deleted accounts on LGBT topics run by university students and nongovernment groups, prompting concern the ruling Communist Party is tightening ...
The prototype of the Alliance could trace back to 2018, as the leader of the Alliance, Chen Guojiang (Chinese: 陈国江, also known as Mengzhu, Chinese: 盟主; lit. 'master of the Alliance', or another name Chen Tianhe, Chinese: 陈天河), a food deliver, joined some deliver groups on WeChat and gradually became the leader.
WeChat, called Weixin (微信) in Chinese, a mobile phone messaging service by Tencent; Weixin, Shimen (维新镇), a town in Shimen County, Hunan Province, China; Wang Weixin (王偉新), Chinese fencer