No distorting of history

In response to people's complaints and reports, authorities shut down 133 WeChat accounts recently for distorting the history of the Party and the State in the information they provided for their subscribers.

China has the longest well-recorded history in the world, while its people like drawing lessons from the past as guidance into the future. But if the stories are riddled with false and fabricated information, they will mislead and distort the outlooks of those who take it to be true, said an article on People's Daily.

The reason these accounts managed to attract so many subscribers so quickly is that they took advantage of people's curiosity about history, and made a good use of the new media to spread their well-plotted stories. In the gossiping that results, stories about the past gradually evolve into historical facts, and then finally become history.