<span style="color: #222222;">China has broadened its block of online encyclopedia Wikipedia to include all language editions. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to a report by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), China started blocking all language editions of Wikipedia last month. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Previously, most editions of Wikipedia — besides the Chinese language version, which was reportedly blocked in 2015 –  were available. China's online censorship apparatus — dubbed the 'Great Firewall' — blocks a large number of foreign sites in the country, such as Google, Facebook and The New York Times. Topics that are deemed too sensitive are also scrubbed. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In November, China's cyberspace authority said it had removed over nine thousand accounts on Chinese social media platforms like messaging app WeChat and the Twitter-like Weibo that it accused of spreading politically harmful information and rumours.</span><br />''  <br />