China Launches Platform To Postage Out 'Online Rumours'

Via the Thompson Reuters Foundation, August 30:

BEIJING, Aug thirty (Reuters) - Communist People's Republic of China has launched a platform, which includes a mobile app, that lets earth study "online rumours" as well as fifty-fifty uses artificial intelligence to put reports that are false, every bit Beijing cracks downwards on what it views every bit socially destabilising content.

The platform, launched on Wednesday, comes every bit Beijing steps upwardly efforts to police pull the internet, specially social media used yesteryear people to hash out politics as well as other sensitive subjects, despite stringent censorship.

Besides a website, the platform Piyao - which agency "refuting rumours" - likewise has a mobile app as well as social media accounts alongside social media giants Weibo as well as WeChat.

Via those channels, Piyao volition broadcast "real" news, sourcing reports from state-owned media, party-controlled local newspapers, as well as diverse authorities agencies.

"Rumours violate private rights; rumours exercise social panic; rumours motion fluctuations inward the stock markets; rumours affect normal concern operations; rumours blatantly gear upwardly on revolutionary martyrs," Piyao said inward a promotional video of the launch on its website.

Official information present network regulators received 6.7 i grand m reports of illegal as well as simulated information inward July, alongside near of the cases coming from Sina that owns Weibo, Tencent which owns Wechat, Baidu, as well as Alibaba .

Chinese laws dictate that rumour-mongers could hold upwardly charged alongside defamation, as well as they confront to 7 years inward prison. Online posts that comprise rumours visited yesteryear 5,000 network users or are reposted to a greater extent than than 500 times could likewise incur jail sentences.

Hosted yesteryear the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission inward affiliation alongside the official Xinhua word agency, Piyao has integrated over forty local rumour-refuting platforms as well as uses artificial intelligence to put rumours....MORE

Here's commentary from Fleetwod Mac:

Probably non suitable for play inward China.
What alongside the Rumours as well as the Go your ain way, as well as all.