Lokman Tsui
Research Fellow
Lokman Tsui (徐洛文) is a writer, recovering academic, and amateur activist on issues of free speech and authoritarianism, with a focus on new technologies and Hong Kong. He is working on a book, a personal history of authoritarianism at home.
He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of Journalism at National Taiwan University. Before joining NTU, he was an assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Communication of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014-2021). and Google’s head of free expression for Asia and the Pacific (2011-2014). He received his PhD degree from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where his dissertation was awarded the Gene Burd Journalism Research Prize for Best Dissertation in Journalism Studies. He was a Faculty Associate (2015-17) and a Fellow (2008-9) at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. He is also the co-editor of The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (2008) together with Dr. Turow.
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HKLEAKS Doxxing Explained
Role of Online Harassment Tactics to Repress 2019 Hong Kong Protests
What is this report about, and what did it find? The report is an in-depth analysis of the doxxing campaign known as “HKLEAKS”, which began in August 2019 and for at least two years targeted protesters active in the Anti-Extradition Bill 2019-20 Hong Kong protests. In February 2019, the Hong Kong government proposed a bill […]
Beautiful Bauhinia
“HKLeaks” – The Use of Covert and Overt Online Harassment Tactics to Repress 2019 Hong Kong Protests
In August 2019 a wave of websites and social media channels, called “HKLEAKS,” began “doxxing” the identities and personal information of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. While the creators of these sites and channels claimed that HKLEAKS was the product of local volunteer communities, several indicators suggest a coordinated information operation conducted by professional actors in alignment with Chinese state interests.
Remembering Liu Xiaobo
Analyzing Censorship of the Death of Liu Xiaobo on WeChat and Weibo
WeChat and Sina Weibo adapted and evolved their censorship efforts in response to the death of Liu Xiaobo.
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