China's citizen journalists finding the mouse is mightier than
the pen  Chinese cyber-investigators find exposure on social
media can protect them from the corrupt officials they seek to
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screen shot Zhou Lubao used the Chinese micro-blogging site
Weibo to draw attention to corruption claims. Photograph: Mark
Ralston/AFP/Getty Images  Days into his new mandate as Communist
party chief and before his ratification as the new president of
the People's Republic, Xi Jinping declared that one of his key
concerns would be the fight against corruption "under the
people's supervision". Neither the "tigers" (bigwig party
leaders) or the "flies" (low-ranking cadres) would be spared.
Citizen journalists have taken the lead in tracking down
corruption and posting their findings on the internet and on
Weibo, the Chinese microblogging site. Zhou Lubao, 28, is an
active cyber-investigator. When not tracking down corruption he
is a household appliance sales rep in a c