China cracks down on Internet rumors

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/08/china-cracksdown-on-internet-rumors.html

Under growing government pressure, China’s leading micro-blogging service, Sina Weibo, launched a new effort to quash Internet rumors Friday by sending warnings to its users to ignore false reports.

The unusual move comes four days after Beijing’s Communist Party chief visited Sina Corp.'s headquarters and called for Internet companies to stop the spread of harmful and inaccurate information, which is seen as a threat to the government’s control.