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Douyin Fines Nearly 80,000 Livestream Hosts

The fines come amidst a broader regulatory crackdown aimed at China's largest tech firms. Douyin

Casey Hall

07 July 2021

The Chinese version of TikTok’s e-commerce arm recently announced that 78,176 livestream e-commerce hosts using its platform have been fined for violating Douyin’s “General Rules for E-commerce Creators”, according to a report in Chinese media outlet,

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