Social networks will begin to block users for rumors of a coronavirus

The Chinese social network WeChat will begin blocking users who spread rumors about coronavirus. So

the platform wants to combat misinformation about the disease.

This was reported by the CNMO portal with reference to the centernetwork security. WeChat believes that misinformation about the spreading epidemic only increases panic among the population. False information will be removed by third party specialists. Those accounts that published rumors face either restrictions or complete blocking. Also, according to Chinese law, deliberate dissemination of deliberately false information that violates public order is punishable by imprisonment for a term of three to seven years.

Recall a new coronavirus appeared in ChineseWuhan city. According to recent data, the number of people infected with the virus exceeds two thousand people. More than 50 people have died from a disease caused by coronavirus.