In the Chinese social network WeChat, about 500 million publications with rumors were blocked in a year.

China's largest social network, WeChat, which has nearly one billion users, blocked about 500 million posts that were rumors in 2017, according to a report published by the Chinese Academy of Telecommunications Research under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

"As of now, more than 800 third-party competent departments have joined the fight against rumors. They have intercepted rumors more than 500 million times, published 40 rumor lists, redirected more than 1.2 million requests, and punished more than 180 thousand official accounts," the published statement said. report quoted by RIA Novosti .

By December 2017, WeChat's Rumor Debunker mini-program was used by more than 19.7 million subscribers, who activated it an average of 300,000 times per day. In total, the program issued 37 million reminders.

In recent years, China has adopted a number of regulatory and ideological documents requiring national Internet companies and media to carefully monitor the quality of information disseminated on the Internet. Last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that it is impossible to guarantee national security and economic stability in the country without fully ensuring cybersecurity.