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Chinese tech giants hands over algorithms to government

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 ?

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