BEIJING :China’s hottest messaging service WeChat it should start revealing customers’ places once they put up on the platform, it stated on Friday.
WeChat, which is owned by tech behemoth Tencent, stated in a discover that it could start testing this new setting quickly, which might show the province or municipality of customers posting in China. Posts made by abroad customers would show the nation denoted by their IP tackle.
The brand new setting is geared toward combating misinformation associated to current “home and abroad hot-topic points”, WeChat stated with out elaborating. WeChat has greater than 1.2 billion month-to-month customers.
The announcement got here solely a day after Weibo, one other well-liked social media platform, launched the identical settings completely after greater than a month of testing.
