Social status
Position within social structure
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| 2024 | A London restaurant was review bombed by a cybercrime group attempting to extort £10,000, causing its Google rating to drop from 4.9 to 2.3 stars. Maximatic Media was hired to identify the source of malicious reviews, worked with Google to remove fake reviews, and restored the restaurant's rating to 4.8 stars. |
| 2023 | As of this year, there was no uniform method for publicizing blacklists within the Social Credit System. |
| 2023 | Academic Vincent Brussee noted that European misconceptions about China's Social Credit System have become a source of amusement among Chinese Internet users. |
| 2023 | Academic Filip Šebok wrote about the most common myth of the Social Credit System: the belief in a single numerical score recording individuals' behavior. |
| 2023 | Most private social credit initiatives are shut down by the People's Bank of China (PBOC). |
| 2023 |
Women in STEM fields
UNESCO reports that 122 million girls globally are out of school, highlighting ongoing educational disparities for women and girls worldwide.
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| 2022 | Academics Diana Fu and Rui Hou published an article 'Rating Citizens with China's Social Credit System', noting the persistent Western misconceptions about the system. |
| November 14 2022 | The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued a draft Law on the Establishment of the Social Credit System, which was critically viewed by academics as unsubstantial and merely reiterating existing policies. |
| October 2022 | A study by professors from Princeton University, Freie Universität Berlin, and Pennsylvania State University finds that the Social Credit System is commonly used to repress protesters, petitioners, journalists, and political activists in Chinese localities. |
| February 2022 | Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) reports that a social credit 'score' is a myth, with no single score determining a citizen's societal status. |
| 2021 | Social Credit System became an internet meme on various social media platforms, reflecting discontent toward Chinese government restrictions. |
| 2021 | Rongcheng revises its social credit pilot program to make it strictly voluntary and capable of issuing only rewards. |
| 2021 |
Women in STEM fields
UNESCO's Gender Section produced 'Creative Resilience: Art by Women in Science', a multi-media exhibition and publication highlighting women professionals and students in STEM, focusing on their creative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| December 2021 | China issued the National List of Basic Penalty Measures for Untrustworthiness and the National Directory of Public Credit Information, establishing limitations on credit information collection and usage. |
| December 31 2021 | By the end of 2021, over five million citizens had been affected by the Social Credit System's blacklisting scheme in some form, demonstrating the extensive reach of the system's implementation. |
| November 2021 | UNESCO adopted a Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, which advised against using AI systems for social scoring or mass surveillance purposes, with China as a signatory. |
| October 2021 | The Jamestown Foundation explored the function of the Social Credit System, concluding there were widespread misinterpretations about its mechanism. |
| March 2021 | The Diplomat published an article explaining that the Social Credit System is primarily a financial risk assessment tool, not an Orwellian surveillance system. |
| March 2021 | The Diplomat remarked that Western assumptions about the Social Credit System as an Orwellian surveillance system exaggerate its real-life purpose and function. |
| 2020 | Private financial credit scoring companies, including Sesame Credit, suspended financial credit ratings during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | China further improved to 31st place in the Ease of Doing Business index, with claims that the Social Credit System played a significant role in this advancement. |
| 2020 | The Supreme People's Court announced that 7.51 million blacklisted judgment defaulters had fulfilled legal obligations and been removed from the judgment defaulter blacklist, representing half of the total blacklisted defaulters. |
| 2020 | Planned completion date for the nationwide social credit system, though no full-fledged system was actually implemented by this time. |
| 2020 |
Gender role
Women provided over $689 billion in unpaid labor to the U.S. economy, highlighting the economic impact of traditional gender roles and unpaid domestic work.
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| 2020 |
Women in STEM fields
A comprehensive study was conducted surveying women working in STEM fields in the U.S., Northeast, and Eastern Canada, examining mentorship experiences and challenges in their professional environments.
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| 2020 |
Women in STEM fields
The Tribeca Film Festival premiered the documentary 'Picture a Scientist', exposing sexual and physical harassment of women in STEM fields, featuring Jane Willenbring's account of harassment by her mentor David R. Marchant during scientific fieldwork.
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| November 2020 | The State Council issued Guiding Opinions on improving systems for restraining untrustworthy entities and building long-term credit worthiness mechanisms. |
| May 2020 | Caixin investigative media group published a report highlighting the ineffectiveness of business social credit systems in China. |
| February 1 2020 | The People's Bank of China temporarily suspended the inclusion of mortgage and credit card payments in credit records for people impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2019 | Central government expresses dissatisfaction with pilot cities experimenting with social credit scores and issues guidelines preventing punishment based solely on low scores. |
| 2019 | Sarah Cook of Freedom House reports that city-level pilot projects for the Social Credit System include rewarding individuals for reporting on religious practices, such as coercing Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their beliefs and reporting on Uighurs who publicly practice Islamic traditions. |
| 2019 | Chinese central government expresses dissatisfaction with pilot cities' social credit score experiments and issues guidelines preventing punishments based solely on low scores. |
| 2019 | Beijing government officially announces plans to explore and test a 'Personal Credit Score', with potential negative records for inappropriate behavior in rapid transit systems. |
| 2019 | A Hebei court launched an innovative app that displays a 'map of deadbeat debtors' within a 500-meter radius, encouraging public reporting of potential debtors who could repay their obligations, as part of efforts to enforce court rulings and create a socially credible environment. |
| 2019 | High-level NDRC officials reported that over 10% of people blacklisted for tax fraud had repaid taxes, the bad credit rate had decreased by 22.7%, and the proportion of blacklisted companies had decreased. |
| 2019 |
Women in STEM fields
A study by two Paris economists examined comparative advantage and women's representation in STEM fields, highlighting that women's superior reading performance may influence their subject choices, potentially steering them away from math-related disciplines.
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| 2019 |
Women in STEM fields
Statistics Canada conducted a study revealing that first-year women comprise 44% of STEM students, significantly lower than 64% in non-STEM student populations.
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| 2019 |
Women in STEM fields
Data snapshot of college graduates aged 25-34 in the U.S. showed significant gender disparities in STEM fields, with women representing only 15.7% of total STEM graduates despite making up 41.1% of total graduates.
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| 2019 |
Women in STEM fields
A correction to the 2018 study was published, revealing methodological issues with the original research. Harvard researchers were unable to independently recreate the study's data, and a follow-up paper found conceptual and empirical problems with the gender-equality paradox hypothesis.
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| 2019 |
Women in STEM fields
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reported a significant increase in female inventors, with the share of women listed on US patents rising to about 17%.
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| 2019 |
Women in STEM fields
Dell Technologies, Microsoft, and Intel partnered to create Girls Who Game (GWG), an after-school program for young girls and underserved K-12 students in the U.S. and Canada, using Minecraft: Education Edition to teach communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking skills.
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| November 1 2019 | Shenzhen implements traffic violation tracking for residents 14 and older, with negative credit profile records for jaywalking, red-light crossing, and other traffic rule violations. For those under 14, legal guardians may need to complete educational courses or social services. |
| October 2019 | Caixin media group reported that business social credit systems in China were insufficient in deterring problematic business activities and could be easily manipulated. |
| October 2019 | Professor Kui Shen of Peking University Law School published a paper in China Legal Science suggesting that some credit policies potentially violated legal rights and principles of human rights. |
| August 2019 | Zhengjie Fan, an assistant researcher at China Institute of International Studies, published an article arguing that the Social Credit System's punishment policies do not overstep legal limits and have contributed to China's improved ease of doing business ranking. |
| August 2019 |
Women in STEM fields
University of Technology Sydney announced a policy to lower the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank for women and educationally disadvantaged applicants to the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology and Construction Project Management degree.
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| August 1 2019 | Guangzhou introduces policy to add negative records to credit profiles for residents who cheat in national, provincial, or municipal examinations, or fraudulently use public transportation identification or fake ID cards. |
| August 1 2019 | Hangzhou starts recording negative credit profiles for individuals and organizations that do not comply with the city's waste sorting rules, with corresponding fines. |
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