BEIJING — A Chinese man was detained after he altered an image of a newspaper front page to add a headline declaring the official adoption of a "two-wife" policy, a joke on the country's new "two-child" policy, the state-owned Yangjiang Daily said Friday.
The newspaper from the southern province of Guangdong fell victim to the prank and reported the incident to local police on Monday. The Yangjiang Daily said the altered image spread quickly on social media, causing an "ill impact."
Chinese authorities have been cracking down on rumors and false information circulating online, saying they disrupt the proper flow of information on the Internet.