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Community of Users Mourn App Shutdown

The State Administration of Radio and Television (formerly the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television) has ordered news and entertainment app parent company Bytedance to shut down Neihan Duanzi, its popular joke-sharing app. This follows a similar order for the company to clean up Jinri Toutiao, its video app. The official announcement about Neihan Duanzi read in part (translated by Global Voices): During the supervision of Toutiao’s