Chinese tech firm ByteDance, the owner of social media app TikTok, censored content critical of China’s government on its news aggregation app BaBe in Indonesia from 2018 to mid-2020, according to …
Local Indonesian moderators for the Baca Berita app were told by Bytedance’s Beijing headquarters to delete “negative” news about Chinese authorities, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
It disagreed with Reuters’ findings that initial guidelines stayed up well into this year, saying instead they had been replaced in 2019 — but did not respond to a query on which month in 2019 that had occurred. The app has since “built and empowered local moderation teams to make decisions that suit the local market,” it said.The news comes as President Donald Trumpthat forces ByteDance’s popular TikTok app to sell to an American company or pull out of the U.S. market. He and other U.S.
Indonesia is a key market for ByteDance where its TikTok app has seen more than 147 million downloads, according to data from SensorTower. The app was briefly banned in 2018 for showing “pornography, inappropriate content and blasphemy,” Reuters cited local officials as saying.
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