A day after declaring a two-month social media crackdown, China’s top internet regulator announced on Tuesday that it will take action against Alibaba’s internet browser subsidiary, UCWeb, and the news app Jinri Toutiao, which is owned by ByteDance, for allegedly publishing dangerous content.
Content that contains “malicious incitement of conflict” and “negative outlooks on life such as world-weariness” will be fought, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) promised Monday.
Social media businesses are required by Beijing to censor information on their platforms. Posts that are regarded to be excessively subversive, vulgar, pornographic, or otherwise detrimental must be strictly regulated.
