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China’s popular social media platform Weibo is cracking down on the use of homonyms and deliberately misspelt words to evade the country’s strict online censorship. The Twitter-like service said in a Weibo post on Wednesday (July 13) that it would launch a campaign to regulate “the illegal behaviour of using homophone characters, variants of words, and other ‘misspelt words’ to spread harmful information”. “We will strengthen the platform’s mechanism of language [wording] supervision, and will refine the keyword identification model,” the post said. The move comes as Chinese regulators ramp up ongoing efforts to “clean up” the country’s cyberspace. As...
