Douyin owner ByteDance said the platform has banned and removed thousands of accounts and videos for ‘money worship’ and other inappropriate behaviour. Wealth inequality remains a challenge in China even though it has shown a declining trend in recent years. — SCMP
ByteDance has punished thousands of accounts on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, for flaunting wealth in short videos.
The Beijing-based company said it had removed more than 2,800 such videos and punished nearly 4,000 accounts since the start of the year, according to a post on its news aggregator Jinri Toutiao on Friday.
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