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Chinese Regulator Fines Sina Weibo for Publishing ‘Illegal Information’

Chinese Regulator Fines Sina Weibo for Publishing ‘Illegal Information’
The logo of Chinese social media app Weibo is seen on a mobile phone in this illustration picture taken on December 7, 2021. Reuters/Florence Lo
Dorothy Li
12/14/2021|Updated: 12/14/2021

An internet control agency in China fined social media giant Weibo 3 million yuan ($470,000) on Dec.14 for repeatedly publishing illegal information on the heavily censored internet.

For the year to November, Sina Weibo, the country’s most popular microblogging platform, has faced 44 fines totaling 14.3 million yuan ($2.2 million) by the Cyberspace Administration of China’s (CAC) office in Beijing.

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