Chinese regulators have been tightening their grip on the technology sector for nearly two years now. The country adopted new rules for algorithms in March – which allow users to opt out of contributing to recommendations. Chinese internet giants including Alibaba, Tiktok-owner ByteDance and Tencent have shared details of their algorithms with China’s regulators for the first time. Algorithms decide what users see and the order they see it in – and are critical to driving the growth of social media platforms. Among the listed algorithms is one belonging to e-commerce website Taobao, owned by Alibaba. Is this killing creativity in tech industry ?

