China’s CAC summons ByteDance’s Toutiao and Alibaba’s UCWeb for “content violations”

China just hauled in ByteDance and Alibaba for a serious ￰0￱ Tuesday, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) summoned ByteDance’s news platform, Toutiao, and Alibaba’s UCWeb browser unit over content ￰1￱ agency said both platforms had been punished for distributing material that “disrupted the online ecosystem order.” CAC said it imposed strict disciplinary actions on the personnel behind the ￰2￱ move is part of a wider two-month crackdown launched Monday by ￰3￱ campaign targets online content that pushes “violent or hostile sentiment,” aiming to promote a version of China’s internet that is clean, obedient, and in line with socialist ￰4￱ internet in China is not a free-for-all.

It’s a curated space where the state decides what’s healthy and what’s not, and right now, that means going after anything negative or ￰5￱ punish platforms over trending topics CAC singled out Toutiao for letting “harmful content” surface on trending lists and other public areas of the platform. UCWeb, on the other hand, got slammed for giving space to “non-authoritative sources” and “non-mainstream media,” especially stories linked to “extremely sensitive and malicious cases and events.” The regulator said these violations touched on serious issues, like cyberbullying and the exposure of minors’ ￰6￱ statements ended the same way, with a ￰7￱ vowed to “wield the ‘sharp sword’ of online law enforcement” and keep pushing until China’s cyberspace is exactly how they want it: polished, controlled, and aligned with the ruling party’s ￰8￱ you’ve got a platform in China, your content better match the Party’s vibe, or you’re ￰9￱ didn’t push ￰10￱ fact, the company put out a statement saying it welcomed the punishment and promised to set up a special team to clean things up and crack down on trolls.

That’s the tone you use when you know resistance isn’t an ￰11￱ wasn’t a ￰12￱ already went after other big platforms last ￰13￱ list includes video app Kuaishou, the Twitter-like Weibo, and photo-sharing app Xiaohongshu, also known as ￰14￱ were accused of similar content ￰15￱ this isn’t just about tech companies ￰16￱ expands to e-commerce and US-linked TikTok deal While the CAC hits content platforms, other regulators are digging into China’s wider private ￰17￱ Tuesday, Huolala, a major cargo platform, was summoned by China’s market ￰18￱ told them to get their act together and fully comply with the anti-monopoly ￰19￱ four days earlier, the same watchdog opened an investigation into Kuaigou, an e-commerce arm of livestream company Kuaishou, for suspected violations of China’s e-commerce ￰20￱ flip the screen to the U.

S., and there’s also trouble brewing there, with ￰21￱ White House is working on a deal to force ByteDance to spin off TikTok’s ￰22￱ into American ￰23￱ the deal happens, Oracle would grab a ￰24￱ already run TikTok’s ￰25￱ names floating around include Silver Lake, Andreesen Horowitz, and Fox Corp. Oracle’s founder, Larry Ellison, has been getting extremely close to ￰26￱ is outgoing CEO Safra ￰27￱ Andreesen is Silicon Valley’s MAGA ￰28￱ the Murdochs? They own Fox ￰29￱ surprises ￰30￱ there’s a problem. TikTok’s board still has to do right by its ￰31￱ means they can’t just hand the app over and turn it into a mouthpiece for right-wing media, even if the deal is politically convenient.

Still, TikTok’s massive audience is drifting into Trump-friendly ￰32￱ comes after a year where the Trump camp has sued ABC, CBS, The New York Times, and Wall Street ￰33￱ control is clearly the ￰34￱ credited TikTok for helping pull in younger Republican voters in ￰35￱ TikTok’s base is mostly left-leaning and ￰36￱ the app shifts hard to the right, don’t be shocked when users start running — just like what happened to Twitter after Elon’s ￰37￱ Difference Wire : the secret tool crypto projects use to get guaranteed media coverage