Wechat made a special crackdown on online gambling in the World Cup, and 12000 gambling accounts were punished.

CTOnews.com, December 20 (Xinhua) according to the Wechat Security Center, the World Cup has finally come to an end after nearly a month of fierce competition. During this time, users expressed their love and concern for football through Wechat, discussing the game with friends and relatives, passing on and sharing joy and regret. But a small number of users also take advantage of everyone's enthusiasm for the game, the use of Wechat functions to organize or participate in online gambling and other gambling behavior.

According to user complaints, Wechat officially carried out special control on online gambling behavior, while continuing to control red packets, chess and cards and other types of gambling behavior.

As of today, Wechat officials have dealt with relevant accounts and content after verifying the evidence of user complaints in accordance with the requirements of relevant national laws and regulations and the regulations such as Tencent Wechat Software Licensing Service Agreement, Wechat personal account usage Code, Wechat Video Operation Standard, Wechat Video Live Conduct Code and so on. The following is the handling of some violations:

Limit the group function of 9044 gambling-related WeChat groups.

For 12000 gambling accounts, step-by-step penalties such as reminders and warnings or restrictions on the use of functions were given according to the seriousness of the violations.

632 short videos involving gambling content were removed from the shelves, and 178 video or live broadcast accounts were processed with gradient limit account function.

Example of some illegal ▲ accounts, Tu Yuan Wechat Security Center

▲ part of the violation group, Tuyuan Wechat Security Center Wechat official said that the wonderful World Cup match is over, but Wechat security team will still adhere to the comprehensive management of online gambling. For repeated and serious online gambling activities, Wechat officials will also actively deal with the police in accordance with the law.

CTOnews.com learned that Weibo had previously cleaned up online gambling content during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. According to the Weibo Community Convention and other relevant provisions, it cleaned up 57000 uncivilized match-watching comments such as trampling abuse and 2.05 million violations involving online gambling, and banned more than 70,000 accounts from seven days to closing their accounts depending on the degree.