Typhoon Dolphin made landfall in China on Sunday, held together better than meteorologists were expecting, and pushed inland, bringing heavy rains and flooding to central China and raising severe weather alerts in the national capital of Beijing.
As the storm advanced, Chinese Communist Party censors worked furiously to delete “flood-related rumors” that were alleged generated with artificial intelligence (A.I.).
Typhoon Dolphin is the strongest tropical cyclone to strike China this year, with rains and wind well above the standards for a Category 1 hurricane. Heavy rain has been a particular concern, as the storm made landfall in the eastern Zhejiang province and worked its way into flood-prone central China...
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