‘Digital Dictatorship’: China's Social Credit System Silences Journalists Exposing Corruption

In China, journalists who expose government corruption are blacklisted by China's social credit system, according to French mainstream media.

"Once you're blacklisted, you can no longer get a bank loan, start a business, buy an apartment, or even send your children to a private school."

"Liu Hu is among a tiny minority of people who have dared to criticise the system, which some are calling a digital dictatorship."