Mayor Zohran Mamdani released videos in three languages to highlight a program that offers free theater tickets to high school students. His Mandarin earned some praise.
People are reacting online to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaking Mandarin in a video posted on social media. The video draws attention to a lottery his administration created, in partnership with the Theatre Development Fund, to give high school students free tickets to Broadway shows.
“Taiwan Travelogue” is the first novel originally written in Mandarin to win the major award for fiction translated into English.
He speaks English. She speaks Mandarin. The secret to their happy marriage: Microsoft Translator.
PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses a five to 10 million-strong bot army to flood X (formerly Twitter) with illicit adverts and pornographic Mandarin language posts to suppress the ability of Chinese speakers to view uncensored news when significant events occur in China.WHO WAS INVOLVED: X (formerly Twitter), X’s head of product […] The post How China Uses Porn and a Millions-Strong Bot Army to Censor Social Media: appeared first on The National Pulse .
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses a five to 10 million-strong bot army to flood X (formerly Twitter) with illicit adverts and pornographic Mandarin language posts to suppress the ability of Chinese speakers to view uncensored news when significant events occur in China. WHO WAS INVOLVED: X (formerly Twitter), X’s head of product Nikita Bier, the CCP, and X’s Mandarin-speaking users. WHEN & WHERE: The CCP social media bot army was revealed by Bier in a series of posts on X on Friday, January 30, 2026. KEY QUOTE: “The Chinese government floods X search results with porn whenever there is political unrest—to prevent their citizens from finding out real-time information.” — Nikita Bier IMPACT:…Open