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How Chinese AI is censoring the controversy around Mbappé’s Chairman Mao comments
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from France 24 [en] · East Asia
Footballer Kylian Mbappé sparked a wave of condemnation across China when he implied that Chinese leader Mao Zedong was a dictator. In China, information about this controversy is being censored by Chinese AI chatbots.
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