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CEO of China's Weibo tests new real-name policy on his own account

The chief executive of China's Weibo on Friday confirmed that China may start denying anonymity to online commentators on politics and finance by requiring them to display their names on their accounts, telling users the policy was incoming.

The comments by Wang Gaofei, whose microblogging platform is China's equivalent of X, caught the attention of local media and several Weibo users, amid concerns over growing censorship and government scrutiny over the country's internet.

Several Weibo influencers have in the past few days said they were told that users commenting on politics, entertainment, and finance with one million followers or more, would have to start displaying their real names. They did not say where the instructions were coming from. China's cyberspace regulator has not commented on this.

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