Over the last two weeks, protests in Hong Kong have seen millions of people flooding the streets to stand against an extradition law they see as the Chinese government’s latest attempt to exert control. If there was ever a news event to test the limits of Chinese censorship, this is it. Over the past decade, China’s censorship program, known as the “Great Firewall” has become more sophisticated. And now the government is creating an alternate reality about the Hong Kong protests, in real time. [Quartz]

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