XChat, a messaging app launched by Elon Musk’s X platform, was made officially available on the Apple App Store on April 17, but it has been censored in mainland China along with Chinese media reports about its launch.
Searching for “XChat,” “xchat,” or the app’s name in Chinese on Chinese platforms such as Douyin or Little Red Book consistently yields empty results, accompanied by technical error codes such as “-30002,” according to social media posts.
Li Zhihao, an engineer based in Guangdong Province in China who specializes in platform technical testing, told The Epoch Times, “This notification is not merely a standard ‘no results found’ message; rather, the interface directly returned an error code, indicating that the search request was intercepted at the server level.”…
Chinese Regime Bans XChat Along With Reports of Its Launch, Residents Say
