Chinese social network Weibo publishes users’ IP addresses

This is one of the platform’s efforts to prevent bad behavior online.

The above decision quickly attracted 200 million views and became the subject of widespread discussion after being posted on the official account of the company. Weibo. Many users support this move especially in the context of widespread misinformation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic causing more and more people to access social networking platforms.

Weibo has more than 570 million monthly active users. This social network said it will publish the user’s IP address from April 28, and users cannot manually turn off IP display.

For users in China, the platform can show the province or location where the user made the post. For overseas users, the country name of the user’s IP address will be displayed.

Weibo affirmed that the above measures are aimed at reducing bad behavior such as posting malicious news, ensuring the transparency and legitimacy of posted information.

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