China has banned journalists from publishing information culled from the internet without verification, in its latest attempt at diluting the influence of social media.
With more than 400 million Chinese now using social networks to spread information in real time, the Communist party has fretted over how to stay in control.
China's leaders, already spooked by the rapid spread of the Arab Spring pro-democracy movement, worry that rumours on the internet, and then picked up by journalists, could lead to unrest and instability.
In a statement posted on its website on Thursday, the General Administration of Press and Publications said reporters would have their press credentials revoked for between five years and life if they recycled untrue information from the internet or mobile phone messages. Full story...
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With more than 400 million Chinese now using social networks to spread information in real time, the Communist party has fretted over how to stay in control.
China's leaders, already spooked by the rapid spread of the Arab Spring pro-democracy movement, worry that rumours on the internet, and then picked up by journalists, could lead to unrest and instability.
In a statement posted on its website on Thursday, the General Administration of Press and Publications said reporters would have their press credentials revoked for between five years and life if they recycled untrue information from the internet or mobile phone messages. Full story...
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