{"id":59923,"date":"2022-04-11T14:33:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T11:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=59923"},"modified":"2025-09-05T00:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:38:39","slug":"china-regulator-to-scrutinise-recommendation-algorithms-of-tech-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/china-regulator-to-scrutinise-recommendation-algorithms-of-tech-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"China regulator to scrutinise recommendation algorithms of tech giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) will review the operation of recommendation algorithms used by tech giants such as ByteDance and Tencent. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-04-08\/china-targets-tech-giants-for-abusing-online-content-algorithms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CAC, during on-site inspections the companies will be obliged to provide their content-recommendation services. The audit will cover large websites, platforms and products with substantial influence, although their names were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator will assess how social networks present advertising and content to attract users.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign aims to implement and ensure compliance with the rules published in August 2021. They regulate the use of content-recommendation algorithms for users. The rules came into force on 1 March 2022.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of a broader set of measures aimed at curbing the growing influence of China&#8217;s largest corporations, whose platforms control spheres of public discourse and entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) proposed a framework for regulating deepfakes.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2021, China&#8217;s Ministry of Science and Technology unveiled a set of ethical principles for AI governance.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s Telegram updates: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cyberspace Administration of China will review the operation of recommendation algorithms of tech giants such as ByteDance and Tencent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,133,36],"class_list":["post-59923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-china","tag-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59925,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59923\/revisions\/59925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}