China Internet Celebrities Shouldn’t Spread Rumors, Xinhua Says
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China’s recent detention of several suspected online rumor-mongers helped protect the public from the negative effect of false information, the official Xinhua News Agency said today in an editorial.
Some social media users passed on and commented on sensational microblog feeds created by unknown people without checking the veracity of the claims, resulting in the spread of rumors among Internet users, the Xinhua editorial said.