President Trump is trying to ban WeChat, the wildly popular messaging app that people in China can't live without. Here's everything to know about the app.
WeChat QR codes are displayed at a grocery store.Messaging, however, is still a huge part of WeChat's usage. In China, you don't take down someone's phone number or receive a business card. Instead, you scan their WeChat QR code.
American tech giants have followed in WeChat's footsteps in some ways. Facebook began turning its Messenger app into a platform for accessing apps like Uber and sending money to friends in 2016. Apple has also integrated similar functionality into its iMessage app around the same time. The iPhone maker also just announced a new feature in June called App Clips, which will let you access services by pointing your phone at or scanning QR codes on objects in the real world.FILE PHOTO: A picture illustration shows a WeChat app icon in BeijingAs WeChat has grown in popularity, so have concerns about it being used for government surveillance in China.
In June 2019, BBC reporter Stephen McDonell wrote about how he had been locked out of his WeChat account after posting photos from a vigil held in Hong Kong to commemorate the 30-year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Afrom 2017 detailed how Chinese authorities snoop on WeChat texts to spot blacklisted words and images.
Back in 2015, the Toronto-based Internet research lab Citizen Lab found that 4% of the 36,000 WeChat posts it examined had been censored, according to The Journal. Citizen Lab has since published
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