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Chinese tech giants – including Alibaba Group Holding, ByteDance and Tencent Holdings – have submitted information on the algorithms of some of their most popular apps, the country’s top internet watchdog said on Friday. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) published a list of 30 apps – including six from Alibaba, one from ByteDance, two from Tencent and three from Baidu – whose operators handed in details of their recommendation algorithms for customising content feed and search results. They cover some of the country’s most popular internet services, such as Tencent’s ubiquitous multipurpose app WeChat, which has nearly 1.3 billion...
