SINGAPORE: Chinese tech giant ByteDance censored content it perceived as critical of the Chinese government on its news aggregator app in Indonesia from 2018 to mid-2020, six people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Following the publication of this story, BaBe said that before the"more localised approach" it currently uses, Babe had"some moderation practices in place that were not consistent with our philosophy of having the Indonesian team deciding what is appropriate for its market. US President Donald Trump has threatened to shut down ByteDance's short-video app TikTok - widely popular in the US, Indonesia and other countries - on national security grounds unless it is sold to a US company.
ByteDance bought Indonesian news aggregator BaBe in 2018 after TikTok was briefly banned in the country for showing"pornography, inappropriate content and blasphemy", according to officials. Under the new BaBe guidelines, articles from partner media outlets that were perceived as critical of the Chinese government would either not be republished on the BaBe app or would be taken down from the app, according to the six sources.
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