Journalists’ profiles must be restored on LinkedIn’s China site, CPJ says
Cenzolovka 07.10.2021
LinkedIn should immediately restore journalists’ blocked profiles in China, be transparent about the process that leads to profile takedowns, and ensure that the company does not facilitate the global export of Chinese censorship of reporters, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
LinkedIn blocked the profiles of several U.S. journalists from the company’s China-based platform in September, according to news reports and tweets by some of those affected. Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, a reporter on China for the news website Axios, and freelance writer Melissa Chan posted on Twitter that they received emails from LinkedIn stating that their public profiles would no longer be viewable in China due to the presence of “prohibited content.” The
