China penalises ByteDance and Alibaba platforms in content crackdown
The Peninsula
Beijing: China s top internet regulator said Tuesday it would take action against ByteDance owned news app Jinri Toutiao and Alibaba s internet browse...
Beijing: China's top internet regulator said Tuesday it would take action against ByteDance-owned news app Jinri Toutiao and Alibaba's internet browser company UCWeb for allegedly displaying harmful content, a day after announcing a two-month social media crackdown.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) vowed on Monday to combat content containing "malicious incitement of conflict" and "negative outlooks on life such as world-weariness".
Beijing requires social media companies to moderate content on their platforms, with posts strictly controlled to avoid anything deemed to be too subversive, vulgar, or generally harmful.
The CAC had already announced penalties this month against three popular digital platforms -- micro-blogging platform Weibo, short video app Kuaishou and Instagram-like Xiaohongshu -- for allegedly neglecting content management duties.
Authorities have not specified what punitive actions are being taken against those platforms.
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