Wechat: measures such as deleting account information will be taken to impersonate the official account of the official organization from January 16.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Sentinel for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, January 13 (Xinhua)-- the Wechat public platform today released regulations on fake account information and impersonated official organizations, effective January 16.

Among them, it is prohibited that the account information contains the content of counterfeit political parties, party, government and military organs, enterprises and institutions, people's organizations and social organizations; it is prohibited that the account information contains the content of fake news media, social groups and other organizations. If the name, profile and avatar of the official account contain keywords and logos of national government functional organizations such as political parties, party, government and military organs, enterprises and institutions, only the corresponding subject setting is allowed, otherwise such names shall not be used.

CTOnews.com learned that after the announcement takes effect, the platform will take corresponding measures such as deleting account information according to the degree of violation for illegal accounts involving relevant counterfeiting activities in accordance with the operational norms.

Examples of violations: