News Snapshot:
Internet censors display social media users’ locations in China schedule May 18, 2022 print Internet censors in China are displaying location tags beneath social media users’ posts to combat disinformation campaigns, The New York Times reports. The tags are based on a user’s IP address and those appearing to access the internet from abroad are treated as foreign spies, with some accounts being deleted. A hashtag calling for the tags to be revoked accrued 8,000 posts and was viewed more than 100 million times before it was censored.
