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Entertainment Accounts Closed as Party Emphasizes News Control

Dozens of popular social media accounts and apps that focus on celebrity and entertainment news have been closed on the order of web censors at the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), who cited China’s new cybsersecurity law that came into effect this month. This comes on the heels of recently updated news regulations which significantly expand the CAC’s jurisdiction over online news. At the South China Morning Post, Zhou Xin reports on this new crackdown