The Data Journalism Lab Blog: Southern Weekend affair: WeiboScope detects an exceptionally high volume of deleted posts on Sina Weibo
The WeiboScope at JMSC wasn’t designed to provide an accurate measure of the volume of deleted posts. It samples some users’ timelines (latest 100 posts or so) at definite times, usually a few times per day, and compares copies to find deleted ones.
However, we have a handful of people…
