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China uses COVID apps to stifle dissent

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July 17, 2022

China's COVID-19 warning app enables health authorities to move quickly against a virus outbreak. But it seems officials also use the app to stop perfectly healthy people from doing what Beijing doesn't want them to do. And the target is dissidents.