WeChat’s developers designed the app to be all-encompassing but not engrossing. That’s the key to its success. Musk promoted his super app project by referring to the Chinese all-in-one app WeChat.

Back in April, when New York City was in the grips of COVID-19, Yuan Mingyue relied on WeChat to keep in touch with relatives in China, to check on their health and to share how things were in New ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The popular and opaque social media app WeChat has been largely overlooked as a culprit in spreading misinformation during and ...

THE Philippines’s Department of Tourism (DOT) topped the list of WeChat articles with the most views in China in 2025. Dragon Trail International’s Top 10 WeChat Posts by Tourism Destinations in 2025, ...

You may have never heard of WeChat, but it's the most important app in China right now. WeChat users can do just about anything, including play games, send money to people, make video calls, order ...

Chinese Americans say they feel "targeted" by Trump's WeChat ban. For many in the Chinese American community, WeChat is their only tether to friends and family both in the U.S. and thousands of miles ...

A judge has blocked a US government attempt to ban the Chinese messaging and payments app, WeChat. US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler said the ban raised serious questions related to the constitution's ...

WeChat has hit one billion monthly users for the first time, the owner of the Chinese messaging app has revealed. The vast majority of its users are based in China, where it's known as Weixin, and ...