WeChat users are writing apology letters to get their banned accounts on Tencent’s super app back - Rest of World

The Tencent app is so essential to life in China that banned users will go to great lengths to be reinstated.

Gilles Sabrie/Bloomberg/Getty Images By Viola Zhou 8 November 2022 In June, a Chinese student in California mentioned a taboo topic on WeChat: the government’s bloody 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters. Hours later, his account was banned from WeChat, cutting him off from family and friends back home. To regain access to his account, Eric, who spoke to Rest of World under a pseudonym so he could discuss sensitive issues freely, was forced to write a heartfelt apology to Tencent i Tencent Best known for its super-app WeChat, Tencent is a Chinese technology conglomerate and a major pl

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