Chinese netizens are avid users of emoji and animated stickers. China’s two most popular social platforms, WeChat and Weibo, even have their own set of emoji. For different reasons, they also ...

How China's social credit systems are influencing the global tech industry, and society at large. ... bunny emoji. When the words 'rice bunny' are spoken aloud they’re pronounced 'mi tu'.

China's corporate social credit system, on the other hand, is more developed, as is its sanctions mechanism, the EU Chamber of Commerce in China observed in a 2019 report.

The potential power of China’s nascent social-credit system was glimpsed last month with the announcement that millions of Chinese were banned last year from traveling by air or high-speed rail ...

It’s easier to talk about what China’s social credit system isn’t than what it is.Ever since 2014, when China announced a six-year plan to build a system to reward actions that build trust ...

China is rolling out a "social credit" system, which aims to monitor people's behaviour to punish and reward people for their behavior. Many reports have detailed what people can do wrong, ...

Pilots underway. The impetus to create a social credit system in China came largely from the country's dearth of a credit rating infrastructure; most people have no credit score.In 2014 the ...

China's social credit system has been compared to Black Mirror, Big Brother and every other dystopian future sci-fi writers can think up. The reality is more complicated — and in some ways ...

Due to be rolled out nationally in 2020, it's thought China's social credit system will assign a Black Mirror-like "trustworthiness" score to citizens and reward or punish them in return.

The social credit system was devised by China’s ruling party back in 2013, after it created a blacklist of “indebted citizens”. Since then, the project has snowballed.

The personal social credit system in China has already stopped the sale of roughly 26 million train and plane tickets. Soon, businesses will have to follow a stringent list of 300 requirements or ...