China’s top cyber authority on Thursday rejected a recent report ranking it last out of 65 countries for press freedom, saying the internet must be “orderly” and the international community should join it in addressing fake news and other cyber issues. From a report: Ren Xianliang, vice minister of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), said the rapid development of the country’s internet over two decades is proof of its success and that it advocates for the free flow of information. “We should not just make the internet fully free, it also needs to be orderly… The United States and Europe also need to deal with these fake news and rumors,” Ren told journalists without elaborating.

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