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Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’
Targeting posts boasting of personal wealth appears to be part of campaign to ‘purify the internet cultural environment’
Chinese social media companies have launched a new crackdown on user content, targeting posts that show off personal wealth and financial extravagance.
In a statement posted online on Wednesday, Weibo said it had spent this month carrying out special management work on “undesirable value-orientated content”, including content “showing off wealth and worshipping money”.
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