The document comes as Beijing ramps up efforts to regulate the country’s booming digital economy. Photo: Reuters
The document comes as Beijing ramps up efforts to regulate the country’s booming digital economy. Photo: Reuters

Beijing pushes stricter online content controls, including review by national ‘rumour debunking’ mechanism

  • Party states all levels of government should strengthen their governance to bring ideology, culture, moral standards and online behaviour under control
  • Chinese authorities have recently upped their efforts to control online narratives, deciding what counts as truth as opposed to falsehood

The document comes as Beijing ramps up efforts to regulate the country’s booming digital economy. Photo: Reuters
The document comes as Beijing ramps up efforts to regulate the country’s booming digital economy. Photo: Reuters
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