Bloomberg account on WeChat closed by China

A Bloomberg social media account on Tencent Holdings’ WeChat accused of violating China’s regulations on online public accounts has been shut down, reports Iris Deng of the South China Morning Post.

Deng reports, “WeChat said it had received ‘complaints’ that Bloomberg’s ‘Daybreak’ account, which has been posting global market updates on a daily basis since January 2021, has breached Chinese regulations, according to a notice on the account page.

“‘All content has been blocked and the account has been suspended,’ the message said, along with a link to the regulations issued by internet watchdog the Cyberspace Administration of China.

“The Bloomberg account’s final update, consisting of pre-trading updates of news bulletins and market data, was made last Friday. All content was inaccessible on Thursday.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.