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This reminds me of WeChat doing similar things a few years ago: Tencent's WeChat to reveal user locations on public account posts.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tencents-wechat-reveal-us...

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Wechat does not reveal "user location", it only applies to "public account". It's not what you'd imagine for an "account", it's more like an "news feed" where org can publish articles.

However if you comment on those articles, your provincial location would be attached. the Cyber Admin of CCP mandates every app to reveal the provincial location for author and commenter.

It does for other social networks like Weibo, Douyin and Xiaohongshu though, you can see the location of the user (province-level for China, country-level for anyone else) on their profile.

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