Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC)

China Censors ‘Flood-Related Rumors’ as Typhoon Dolphin Pushes Inland

Typhoon Dolphin made landfall in China on Sunday, held together better than meteorologists were expecting, and pushed inland, bringing heavy rains and flooding to central China and raising severe weather alerts in the national capital of Beijing. As the storm advanced, Chinese Communist Party censors worked furiously to delete “flood-related rumors” that were alleged generated with artificial intelligence.

Residents wade through waterlogged areas on August 10, 2026 in Shanghai, China. Typhoon Do

China Announces 2023 Internet Purge: ‘Special Campaigns to Cleanse Cyberspace’

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) held a press conference on Tuesday to tout the millions of items of “illegal information” and “illegal accounts” it banned last year, and lay out its plans for an even greater censorship purge in the coming year to “rectify the cyberspace problems which have harmed the experience of Chinese netizens.”

An accredited member of the media goes online at the main press center (MPC) on the Olympi