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FEMINISM

The Low Bar for Online Defamation in China

Several women have been falsely accused of promiscuity and “money worship” online, highlighting a lack of legal protection against internet rumors

Returning home from work on the evening of November 14, Katherine Zhang received a disturbing phone call from a cousin, who told her he’d received a message from an anonymous QQ user who claimed to have been in a “friends with benefits” relationship with Zhang back in 2017. “She looked like a good girl, and not someone who would just hook up,” the user told Zhang’s cousin in chat records seen by TWOC.

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