Rebecca Davis editorChinese 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 a new report from Reuters citing six people with direct knowledge of the issue.Local Indonesian moderators for the Baca Berita (BaBe) app were told by Bytedance’s Beijing headquarters to delete “negative” news about Chinese authorities, Reuters reported on Wednesday.BaBe admitted in a statement that before its current “more localised approach” to content oversight, it 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.”.
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