China suspends major platform that doubted Beijing COVID policies


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Now-suspended DXY, backed by tech giant Tencent, has at least 30 million followers on China's three major social apps. CISSY ZHOU, Nikkei staff writer August 10, 2022 22:46 JST | China Copy Copied HONG KONG -- China has suspended a health platform followed by tens of millions that debunked COVID-19 misinformation and criticized the government's boosting of traditional medicine as a treatment for the respiratory illness. Regulators blocked platform Dingxiang Yuan's (DXY) ability to post articles to accounts on popular social media apps including Twitter-like Weibo, WeChat and TikTok's Chinese equivalent Douyin from this week, a source briefed on the...