{"id":42269,"date":"2022-03-08T19:59:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T10:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/08\/chinese-government-adviser-calls-for-law-to-ban-fake-news"},"modified":"2022-03-08T19:59:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T10:59:27","slug":"chinese-government-adviser-calls-for-law-to-ban-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42269","title":{"rendered":"Chinese government adviser calls for law to ban \u2018fake news\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jia Qingguo claims the proliferation of misinformation online has fuelled tensions between China and foreign countries<\/p>\n<p>An adviser to the Chinese government has called for new laws to ban \u201cfabricating and disseminating fake information online\u201d, blaming the rampant disinformation on the internet for polarising Chinese public opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Jia Qingguo, a member of China\u2019s highest political advisory body, said he also believed the proliferation of misinformation online had fuelled tensions between China and foreign countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/08\/chinese-government-adviser-calls-for-law-to-ban-fake-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jia Qingguo claims the proliferation of misinformation online has fuelled tensions between China and foreign countriesAn adviser to the Chinese government has called for new laws to ban \u201cfabricating and disseminating fake information online\u201d, blaming t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,238,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-media","category-press-freedom","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42270,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42269\/revisions\/42270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}