TikTok sister app Douyin removes thousands of accounts for flaunting wealth


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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