China orders ByteDance's Toutiao to fix search, saying national hero smeared

Toutiao representatives were quoted in the CAC post as saying that it will carry out 'rectification' in time. ByteDance did not offer an immediate comment when contacted by Reuters. — Reuters

BEIJING: China's Internet regulator ordered ByteDance news app Jinri Toutiao to clean up its search engine, saying the search function threw up "slanderous" information on a late Communist Party military leader.

The Beijing office of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said in a post published on Nov 11 night on its official WeChat account that the search engine's results show inaccuracies on Fang Zhimin, who is viewed as a revolutionary martyr by the party.