China's State Chancellery of Internet Information reported "taking action" against more than a million Chinese social media accounts. At the same time, 66 thousand accounts were banned forever. It also reports "actions" generated from 1.41 million posts.
Violations included spreading rumors, imitating government departments and the media, and illicit enrichment through social media.
These actions of the Chinese authorities are carried out as part of the implementation of a strategy to tighten control over the IT sector. They concern such Internet giants of the People's Republic of China as Tencent, Alibaba Group and ByteDance operating the most popular commercial Internet platforms in the country.
The report states that China will continue not only to actively clean up social networks, but will also impose sanctions against companies that control them if they do not effectively censor user content prohibited under Chinese law.
Earlier it was reported that the Chinese authorities fined comedian troupe Shanghai Xiaoguo Culture Media Co 14.7 million yuan (about $2.1 million) for a joke by stand-up comedian Li Haoshi about the Chinese army. He subsequently posted an apology on the Chinese social network Weibo.