Overview

• The Cyberspace Administration of China directed its Beijing branch to summon company representatives, issue official warnings, and mandate rectifications within set deadlines.
• The regulator said both platforms failed their core content-management duties, citing frequent problematic entries on their main trending lists.
• Authorities criticized the elevation of celebrity gossip and trivial personal updates as undermining the online ecosystem.
• Weibo said it accepts the criticism and has created a special task force to carry out rectification work, while Kuaishou did not immediately comment.
• The action follows a market-watchdog probe opened a day earlier into Kuaishou’s e-commerce unit Kuaigou, and comes after similar steps against Xiaohongshu last week.