Overview

• The Cyberspace Administration of China announced disciplinary and punitive measures against Weibo and Kuaishou for poor content management.
• Regulators singled out trending and search rankings that boost celebrity-focused and trivial posts, accusing Weibo of damaging the online ecosystem.
• The measures include summonses for interviews, orders to correct breaches within a set period, warnings and potential sanctions against responsible individuals.
• Weibo said it accepts the criticism and has formed a special task force to rectify governance of its trending list, while Kuaishou did not issue an immediate public response.
• The action extends similar steps taken last week against Xiaohongshu, affecting platforms that report hundreds of millions of monthly active users and face heightened oversight.