Tencent Holdings, operator of China’s biggest social media platform WeChat, said it reached almost 300 million people with its campaign to debunk fake news last year as Chinese regulators and private Internet companies continue their clean up of online content.
WeChat, the ubiquitous messaging and social media app with more than one billion users, partnered with 774 third-party organisations, including the police and China’s food and drug authority, to produce 3,994 articles debunking rumours in 2018, according to a report released by Tencent on Jan 21. The articles were read more than 1 billion times, reaching 295 million users.