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WeChat, which is owned by tech behemoth Tencent, said in a
notice that it would begin testing this new setting soon, which
would display the province or municipality of users posting in
China. Posts made by overseas users would display the country
denoted by their IP address.
The new setting is aimed at combating misinformation related to
recent "domestic and overseas hot-topic issues", WeChat said
without elaborating. WeChat has more than 1.2 billion monthly
users.
The announcement came only a day after Weibo, another popular
social media platform, introduced the same settings permanently
after more than a month of testing.
(Reporting by Eduardo BaptistaEditing by David Goodman)
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