Job listings show Xiaohongshu is rushing to hire English-speaking moderators to help manage the unexpected influx of English videos and posts on the platform
a sign of wider censorship. Earlier this week, China's Cyberspace Administration warned Xiaohongshu to “ensure China-based users can't see posts from US users.” [image] Stuart Gilmour / @drstuartgilmour : Xiaohongshu is hiring English content moderators. About 1200 usd per month starting salary plus benefits (transport, food, health insurance etc), and you need at least 4 years experience. You could probably live by yourself on this salary in many parts of China. [image] Antonio García Martínez / @antoniogm : Perhaps the just laid-off “misinformation specialists” from Facebook can get a job with a more ideologically-aligned social network. Seva / @sevaut : I guarantee the CCP is more concerned about defending the chinese internet from american brainrot than about converting them to xi jinping thought Caiwei Chen / @caiweic : Xiaohongshu hiring English content moderator and marked the job as “urgent” Eugene Wei / @eugenewei : American TikTok refugees fleeing to Little Red Book en masse and interacting directly with the Chinese user base there is the most significant breach of the Great Firewall in years. Now Little Red Book (I refuse to play along with this “Rednote” branding nonsense) is scrambling David Zhang / @davidzhang360 : Lmao they are emergency hiring English censors