Chinese social network fails to curb abuse by showing users’ locations

A Chinese social network’s attempt to reduce abuse by displaying users’ estimated locations alongside posts actually gave fellow users a new weapon with which to sling insults.

In April 2022, Weibo, the closest Chinese equivalent to X (formerly Twitter), began to display the province or municipality where someone is based according to their internet protocol (IP) address – a policy that was designed to reduce incivility.…