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ByteDance censored anti-China content in Indonesian news app
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Chinese tech company ByteDance censored media criticizing the Chinese government on news aggregation apps in Indonesia up until the middle of 2020, Reuters reported Thursday.
In 2018, ByteDance purchased the Indonesian news aggregation app Baca Berita (BaBe) after the country briefly banned the tech giant’s video-sharing platform TikTok. Shortly after ByteDance’s acquisition of BaBe, moderators for the app were instructed to take down content critical of the Chinese government. News that referenced the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 or Mao Zedong, founding father of the People’s Republic of China, was removed from the app, according to Reuters.
ByteDance and TikTok did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Verge.
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21366488/bytedance-censor-anti-china-content-babe-tiananmen-square-mao-zedong
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