A general view shows a complex of buildings that house offices of Toutiao's Tianjin subsidiary, responsible for content monitoring, in Tianjin, China September 20, 2017. Picture taken September 20, 2017. REUTERS/ Cate Cadell
TIANJIN, China: In a glass tower in a trendy part of China's eastern city of Tianjin, hundreds of young men and women sit in front of computer screens, scouring the Internet for videos and messages that run counter to Communist Party doctrine.
References to President Xi Jinping are scrutinised. As are funny nicknames for state leaders. And any mention of the Tiananmen protests in 1989 is immediately excised, as is sexual innuendo and violent content.
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