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Lawsuit over politically motivated censorship and surveillance on WeChat filed in California Citizen Power Initiatives for China CPIFC filed a lawsuit today in the Superior Court for the State of California Santa Clara County alleging that the censorship and surveillance practices and policies of WeChat the dominant social media and payments application in the Chinesespeaking world violates numerous aspects of California law. Joining the lawsuit are six California WeChat users who have suffered significant financial emotional and psychological harm as a result of those practices and policies. The lawsuit asks the court to declare that the challenged practices and policies are unlawful under California law issue an injunction against them and to order that defendants pay damages for the harms they caused. The defendants are Tencent America LLC and Tencent International Service.