Australia PM Morrison loses control of WeChat Chinese account as election looms

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has lost control of his account on the Chinese-owned social media platform WeChat and a lawmaker on Monday accused China's leaders of political interference.

Morrison's 76,000 WeChat followers were notified his page had been renamed "Australian Chinese new life" earlier this month and his photograph had been removed, Sydney's The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported. The changes were made without the government's knowledge, the report said.

Paterson, who is a member of Morrison's conservative Liberal Party, called on all lawmakers to boycott the platform, which is owned by Chinese technology giant Tencent. Fergus Ryan, a Chinese social media expert with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, tweeted that Morrison was one of at least a dozen Australian politicians who use WeChat accounts now registered to Chinese citizens.

"More likely than not it was state-sanctioned and it shows the attitude towards free speech and freedom of expression that comes out of Beijing," Sharma said. "I don't think we know who's behind this. I dare say we could safely say it was at least inspired by the China government," he added.

 

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