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“Last week, the Beijing bureau of China’s top internet regulator accused Toutiao of ‘spreading pornographic and vulgar information’ and ‘causing a negative impact on public opinion online.’ In response, the app’s parent company, Beijing Bytedance Technology, took down or temporarily suspended the accounts of more than 1,100 bloggers that it said had been publishing ‘low-quality content.’ It also replaced the app’s ‘society’ section with a new section called “New Era,” which is heavy on state media coverage of government decisions.” —
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ByteDance,
censorship,
China,
Toutiao
