Overview

• The Cyberspace Administration of China launched a two-month campaign to curb content it labels as maliciously inciting conflict or promoting negative outlooks on life.
• The regulator summoned ByteDance’s news app Toutiao and Alibaba’s UCWeb, ordering rectification within a set timeframe, issuing warnings, and pledging strict accountability for allowing harmful material.
• Earlier in September, Weibo, Kuaishou, and Xiaohongshu were disciplined for neglecting content-management duties, with authorities signaling further sanctions if shortcomings persist.
• Inspections will zero in on trending lists, recommendation systems, and comment sections, targeting doxxing tutorials, fabricated economic rumors, sensational conspiracy theories, toxic fan-group harassment, and some AI-generated violent content.
• Beijing police said they imposed compulsory measures on three people accused of fabricating rumors about actor Yu Menglong’s death, as authorities urge the public to report offending posts.