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China’s tech giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are known to have their hands in nearly every tech sector -- artificial intelligence, the sharing economy, autonomous cars, media, gaming and more.
Now it looks like another company is moving towards that direction.
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In China, over 120 million people spend an average of an hour and 13 minutes on Toutiao everyday, making it the country’s most popular news and content app.
It tries to keep people hooked with a news feed driven heavily by algorithms, showing content tailored to the reader’s interests and habits.
As of October last year, over 1.2 million content creators were publishing 500,000 items each day, including articles and videos. However, many of them are clickbait and ads, pushed by content creators hoping to hit traffic targets to reap rewards.
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