Chinese regulator summons ByteDance, Alibaba’s platforms over content violations

China’s cyberspace regulator summoned ByteDance’s news platform Toutiao and Alibaba’s internet browser operator UCWeb over content violations, making them the latest companies to be targeted by a government crackdown on user behaviour online.

Both platforms were recently penalised for content that “disrupted the online ecosystem order”, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said on Tuesday in two separate statements, mentioning in both that the penalties included “strict disciplinary actions against responsible personnel”.