ByteDance and Alibaba summoned in China’s online cleanUp drive

China – (Special Correspondent / Web Desk) – China’s main internet watchdog has taken action against two major tech platforms, Jinri Toutiao (owned by ByteDance) and Alibaba’s UCWeb. The government says the companies did not properly control harmful content on their sites. This is part of a bigger effort to clean up the internet.

On Tuesday, officials called in leaders from ByteDance’s Jinri Toutiao for a meeting. They gave the company a formal warning and told it to fix the problems within a certain time. The regulators stated that the platform let damaging material appear in its popular search area, which hurts the online environment.

The authorities did not share details about the specific content involved or how severe the punishments might be.

In a separate announcement, the same agency said it would take similar steps against Alibaba’s UCWeb. They accused this platform of showing “very sensitive and nasty” content about online bullying and the private details of young people.

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This enforcement is part of a wider two-month campaign that started just a day earlier. The campaign’s goal is to stop what it calls the harmful stirring up of arguments and the spread of negative views on life.

This is not the first move in this cleanup. Earlier this month, the regulator also penalized three other well-known platforms—Weibo, Kuaishou, and Xiaohongshu—for not managing their content well, though the exact penalties were not revealed.