Title: Social media: How do other governments regulate it? - BBC News
Headings: Social media: How do other governments regulate it?
Social media: How do other governments regulate it?
The government is to outline new powers for the media regulator Ofcom to police social media.
Self-governance
Germany
European Union
Australia
Russia
China
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Content: The Cyberspace Administration of China announced at the end of January 2019 that in the previous six months it had closed 733 websites and "cleaned up" 9,382 mobile apps, although those are more likely to be illegal gambling apps or copies of existing apps being used for illegal purposes than social media. China has hundreds of thousands of cyber-police, who monitor social media platforms and screen messages that are deemed to be politically sensitive. Some keywords are automatically censored outright, such as references to the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident. New words that are seen as being sensitive are added to a long list of censored words and are either temporarily banned, or are filtered out from social platforms. This piece was originally published in April 2018 and has been updated to reflect the Ofcom proposals and more recent statistics. What do you want BBC Reality Check to investigate? Get in touch
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