The Click investigation reveals an “editorial war” between pro-Beijing and pro-democracy editors on Hong Kong issues. Especially on the Chinese-language site and the English version.
“People in Beijing often remove content conducive to protests, such as tear gas and images of barricades. But, unfortunately, they also add their content,” said a Hong Kong-based editor named John. Who wished to remain anonymous for fear of being intimidated.
But he admits that “editing wars” are going on on both sides.
“Pro-democracy editors tend Editing Of The Chinese to add content to change the balance or tone of an article. But in my experience, pro-Beijing editors are much more aggressive when it comes to misinformation,” he said. “Now, it can’t be fixe without outside intervention. Someone is trying to rewrite history.”
He said many pro-Beijing editors are patriotic citizens living outside China. While those editing from the mainland uses VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) to bypass government website blocks. An example of an “editing war” is the Chinese Wikipedia article. About the Hong Kong incident in 2019 called the Yuen Long attack.
It came amid protests in Hong Kong when about 100 white-shirted men believed to have links to the Beijing camp attacked people at a bus stop. One of the two photos – a video screenshot is showing the man in white with Hong Kong police. That was initially being seen side by side on the page had been deleted. As of August 2020, at least 123 revisions of the article’s text followed within two days.