China orders ByteDance's Toutiao to fix search, saying national hero smeared

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The Beijing office of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said in a post published on Monday night on its official WeChat account that ...

BEIJING: The Beijing office of the Cyberspace Administration of China said in a post published on Monday night on its official WeChat account that the search engine's results show inaccuracies on Fang Zhimin, who is viewed as a revolutionary martyr by the party.

The CAC said it had asked Toutiao to"thoroughly clean up relevant information and punish relevant responsible persons", as well as"improve the search function." Toutiao representatives were quoted in the CAC post as saying that it will carry out"rectification" in time. ByteDance did not offer an immediate comment when contacted by Reuters.Toutiao is a popular AI-driven news aggregator that recommends different news articles to users in China with different interests and is one of the flagship apps run by ByteDance, which also operates the short video app TikTok.

 

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