Top Public Relations Director at Chinese Social Media Giant Weibo Arrested

The logo of Chinese microblogging platform Weibo on a smartphone in the Chinese financial city of Shanghai, on March 19, 2014. Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images

SHANGHAI—Chinese authorities have arrested a top public relations executive at Chinese social media giant Weibo Corp, local Chinese media reported widely on Aug. 10 and confirmed to Reuters by a company source.

According to an internal memo sent to staff and seen by Reuters, Mao Taotao, director of public relations at Weibo, which is partly owned by e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., is suspected of bribery and had “seriously harmed the interests of the company.”