Vietnam wants Facebook, YouTube, TikTok users to verify identities

News coincides with authoritarian state's plan for sweeping probe of TikTok

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The Vietnamese government says individuals and groups will have to confirm their identities for social media accounts to fight human trafficking and other crimes. (Source photos by AP and Reuters) 

LIEN HOANG, Nikkei staff writer

HO CHI MINH CITY -- Vietnam plans to require Facebook, YouTube and TikTok users to verify their accounts, part of the one-party state's widening internet clampdown that includes a "comprehensive" probe into political content on TikTok.

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