As a social media platform user, you can easily be identified by viewers when you have a unique display name and an even more memorable username. When you first sign up for an account, you will ...

Several Chinese social platforms, including Quora-like Zhihu and the domestic version of TikTok, Douyin, announced on Friday that they will soon display user locations based on internet protocol (IP) ...

This sudden change is quite unusual since the Asian country's central government doesn't require platforms to track the real locations of their users. This has been the situation in China in the past ...

The new policy of Chinese social media platforms to display the location of users based on their internet protocol (IP) address has prompted invasion of privacy complaints from some but also humour, ...