Anti-Asian hate continues to spread online amid COVID-19 pandemic – By Eoghan Macguire (Al Jazeera) / April 5 2020
Racist abuse of Asians continues on social media despite pledges by Facebook, Twitter and TikTok to tackle issue.
Jing He has become used to online racist abuse.
The 26-year old from Shanghai began posting a video diary about the COVID-19 outbreak to her social media accounts in early March. Her aim was to depict life in her home city as the epidemic peaked in China.
But virulent, hateful abuse began to appear on later posts.
One comment under a video Jing made for the Facebook page of the China Minutes news site mocked the appearance of Asian people, referring to them as “slanty eyed b****rd’s”. Another detailed a conspiracy theory of how China was responsible for the virus as a means of population control.
These posts and many others, which appear to have since been removed, left Jing “hurt” and wondering whether she should ever share her content again.
“I wasn’t expecting it,” she said. “Racism is never okay.”
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