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Social Media and China's Virus Outbreak
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2025
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In the early stage of the coronavirus outbreak in China, social media were bursting with anger and desperation. Many pleaded for medical help, called for public attention to the unattended and asked for accountability for local officials who failed to respond to the public health crisis in time. But with the epicenter shifting to Europe and North America, a series of social media tactics, highlighting China's successful containment efforts, while disparaging foreign countries' responses, and spinning the origin of the coronavirus outbreak, facilitated a nationalist takeover of social media sites in China.
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