HANOI—On Christmas Day, Vietnam’s army unveiled its latest answer to the question of how to police the internet: a new, 10,000-strong cyber unit to trawl the web and counter any “wrongful opinions” about the communist state’s government. Vietnamese leaders have wrestled with the web for years, nervous about the chaos they say the internet can unleash. The country’s president this summer warned that rumors and innuendo could weaken the foundations of the state.

Source: Wall Street Journal December 31, 2017 12:00 UTC