Nation cracks down on online rumormongering

China has permanently closed 66,600 individual media accounts on social media and online in the past two months as part of a special campaign to crack down on rumormongering, imposture and illegal for-profit activities, the Cyberspace Administration of China said on May 27.

In the latest move to create a healthier internet ecosystem in China, cyberspace administrative agencies have been carrying out a special campaign targeting individual media since March 10.

By May 22, more than 1.4 million items of illegal content on popular social media platforms like Sina Weibo, WeChat and Douyin had been removed, and over 927,600 accounts had been dealt with, the CAC said in a statement.