China orders Bytedance to shut down app for sharing jokes, silly videos citing vulgar content, a day after its flagship app Toutiao was pulled from app stores
Again Josh Chin / Wall Street Journal : New Target for China's Censors: Content Driven by Artificial Intelligence South China Morning Post : China's king of titillating content Jinri Toutiao issues apology for providing what the people want Yimian Wu / China Money Network : Toutiao CEO Issues Apology As Chinese Media Regulator Shuts Joke App Permanently Bloomberg : China Freezes Out Tencent, Toutiao Apps as Crackdown Widens Nicole Jao / TechNode : Toutiao CEO apologizes for Neihan Duanzi after ordered removal from app stores Tweets: @nytimesbusiness : The travails of tech in China: After being rapped by regulators for vulgar content, Bytedance promised to increase its censorship team to 10,000 from 6,000 http://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimesbusiness : “Content had appeared that did not accord with core socialist values,” Bytedance's founder wrote in a statement http://www.nytimes.com/... Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : “We didn't realize that technology has to be guided by the core values of socialism so it can be used to spread positive energy” http://www.bloomberg.com/...