Video sites vow to clean up content

Online providers plan to improve content review, overhaul services

BEIJING - Chinese short video platforms promised to increase manpower in content review and overhaul their services, after the country's authority moved to straighten out irregularities with popular livestreaming and short video websites and applications to create a clean online environment.

In early April, the State Administration of Radio and Television and Cyberspace Administration of China asked news website Toutiao and livestreaming website Kuaishou to remove obscene and violent content, and close the user accounts that uploaded such content.