Posts expressing partisan views were removed daily – both for and against Russian military action.
"Nobody dares to support Ukraine now," wrote one person on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter. "It's all one-sided support for Russia."
It was removed along with many others like it, according to Free Weibo, a platform that tracks Chinese internet censorship.
Social media platforms in China receive constant instructions from the government on how to deal with specific content and are under pressure to follow this.
Official and mainstream media regularly report on the situation in Ukraine, but have not called Russia's actions a "war" or an "occupation."
Doublethink Lab, which has tracked disinformation efforts in real time, noted that Chinese media "are regularly citing disinformation and conspiracy theories from Russian sources."
False claims, such as that the Ukrainians set fire to their nuclear power plant, are repeated by the Chinese media with little effort to challenge them.
There is also very little reporting on resistance from the Ukrainian side, nor the wider Western response to Russia's invasion.
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