China
discourages sites from using social media to
report the news
China's famously
strict Internet rules regarding
news websites took a**ther odd turn this week:
news sites can**t publish stories sourced
from social media without official approval
The Cyberspace Administration of
China (
CAC), the country's official agency tasked with governing Internet affairs, put the new rules in place
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"Online
media basing
news reports on contents made on
social media must verify them before publication," reads
the directive published on Xinhua, China's state-run new outlet
In the report, several of China's top tier
sites are mentioned as having previously run afoul of the agency, including sina.com, ifeng.com and 163.com. A separate
report from the
South China Morning Post indicates that Tencent's Qq.com and Caijing.com.cn have also been punished by the country's Internet agency for posting what it deemed to be "fabricated"
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