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China shuts 21,000 online accounts over rumormongering

Midsection of businessman holding mobile phone while using laptop in cafe. [Getty Images]

China's public security authorities have closed more than 21,000 online accounts involved in rumormongering as a nationwide campaign has come to a close.

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