Chinese social media users outwit censor with video on Covid lockdown

Chinese internet users rallied to outwit government censors on a video documenting weeks of lockdown in Shanghai, flooding social media feeds as frustration continued to escalate over strict Covid Zero rules.

The six-minute video titled “The Sound of April” was posted on Friday and soon got censored as it went viral. 

Chinese Wechat users then uploaded the film from different accounts and in various forms including upside-down and mirrored versions until late night, as newly-uploaded clips were also removed.

The film, on a slowly-moving frame of overhead shots of the city in black-and-white, spliced in sound clips from government press