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Chinese social media giant WeChat shuts LGBT accounts

by FU Ting
| July 10, 2021 12:09 AM

BANGKOK (AP) — China’s most popular social media service has deleted accounts on LGBT topics run by university students and nongovernment groups, prompting concern the ruling Communist Party is tightening control over gay and lesbian content.

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