Chinese social network fails to curb abuse by showing users' locations
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- January 11, 2024
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Weibo is one of the most popular social media platforms in China Geoff Smith / Alamy Stock Photo A Chinese social network’s attempt to reduce abuse by displaying users’ estimated locations alongside posts actually gave fellow users a new weapon with which to sling insults. Read more In April 2022, Weibo, the closest Chinese equivalent to X (formerly Twitter), began to display the province or municipality where someone is based according to their internet protocol (IP) address – a policy that was designed to reduce incivility.…
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