Guobin Yang of the Annenberg School for Communication and School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the Chinese supreme court’s decision to clear eight people in Wuhan accused of spreading rumors about coronavirus. The verdict “says that you can’t punish these eight people. It also reaffirms the rule that you can’t spread rumors,” Yang said. “But what is a rumor, and what is not? That’s still up to the public-security people to decide.”

February 7, 2020 ・ From The New Yorker