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China Forbids News Reporting from Social Media Unless Approved

By CircleID Reporter
July 05, 2016, 6:44 pm PDT Views: 5,029 Add Comment

China’s Internet watchdog has issues warning against publishing news from social media sites without proper verification. “The instruction, issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China, came only a few days after Xu Lin, formerly the deputy head of the organization, replaced his boss, Lu Wei, as the top gatekeeper of Chinese internet affairs,” Choi Chi-yuk reporting in South China Morning Post.

— Cyberspace Administration of China / Sunday, July 2016: “It is strictly forbidden for websites not to specify or to falsify news sources and to use hearsay to create news or use conjecture and imagination to distort the facts.”

— “China Cracks Down on News Reports Spread via Social Media,” Edward Wong and Vanessa Piao, New York Times, 5 July 2016: “The agency said it had already warned and punished nine websites, among them the popular news sites of Sina, Ifeng, Tencent, Caijing and 163.”

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