Today's headlines have been interviewed again. I'm afraid it's time to reflect. This time, we need to take off the shelf for rectification. In addition, there are four apps that need to be taken off the shelf for rectification. What's going on with today's headlines? What's the reason for today's headlines? Let's get to know with Xiaobian.
On April 9, several people familiar with the application distribution channel confirmed to the reporter that they had received the request of the competent department to remove four news and information applications before 15:00 that day. These four applications are today's headlines, Phoenix News, Netease News and daily express. From 15:00 on April 9, 'today's headlines' will be suspended for three weeks, Phoenix News will be suspended for two weeks, Netease News will be suspended for one week, and daily express will be suspended for three days.
In the context of the increasing efforts of the regulatory authorities to clean up the network environment, this is the third time that the regulatory authorities have "punished" the headline in nearly two weeks.
4 apps have been removed from the Android channel
Yesterday afternoon, the media revealed that four apps, including today's headlines, will be removed from the market, which is several hours earlier than the time required by the competent department.
According to people familiar with the matter, according to the requirements of relevant departments, from 15:00 on April 9, the download service of "today's headlines" will be suspended for three weeks, the download service of "Phoenix News" will be suspended for two weeks, the download service of "Netease News" will be suspended for one week, and the download service of "Daily Express" will be suspended for three days. In terms of the time period of suspension of downloads, the 'punishment' of headlines today is the most serious.
After 15:00 on April 9, the reporter logged into a number of domestic android app stores and found that the above-mentioned four app products have indeed been removed from the shelves, but these apps are still available for download in the Apple App store.
According to the reporter's actual measurement, the reason given by Tencent app Bao for the removal of the four products is' suspension of download service at the request of the competent authority '; vivo app store shows' download will resume immediately after the modification due to internal optimization modification'; oppo app store shows' content is being adjusted, download is not available temporarily '; Huawei app store can't search for the products that are required to be removed from the shelf completely Products.
Up to the time of press release, phoenix.com and Tencent confirmed the news to reporters, while Netease did not respond to the news for the time being.
However, at this point in time, today's headline officials did not make any public response. However, a staff member of today's headline Technology Department said that there were reasons for the large number of headlines and problems.
According to Analysys data, in February 2018, the user activity of today's headlines was 263 million, with only 45 million daily express, 60 million Netease News and 56 million Phoenix News. Not only that, today's headlines have been far ahead of competitors in the past eight months among the four products that have been off the shelves at the same time.
Network space management plus
Some insiders said that this off the shelf or with the self media rectification, the latter through the above channels to release false information and other content has attracted the attention of management.
In fact, over the past year, relevant departments have been strengthening their supervision on cyberspace. In August 2017, the state Internet and Information Office released a message that wechat, Sina Weibo and Baidu Post Bar were put on file for investigation because they were suspected of violating laws and regulations such as the network security law and failed to fulfill their management obligations for information prohibited by laws and regulations issued by their platform users.
At the end of December 2017, due to the continuous dissemination of pornographic and vulgar information, illegal provision of Internet news and information services and other issues, today's headlines, Phoenix News mobile phone client were interviewed by Beijing Internet and information office, enterprises were ordered to immediately stop illegal activities, and 8 channels were suspended from updating.
Since this year, Zhihu, fasthand and other applications have also received the requirements of interviews from the competent authorities and the penalties for off shelf applications. Iqiyi, bilibilibili and other websites have also encountered a large number of film and animation resources under the supervision of policies, and self-made online content has become a major disaster area due to playing sideline ball. At the same time, the Internet Information Office also requires all kinds of social networking sites and clients to strengthen monitoring and management of the content released by users' public accounts.
Jiang Jun, spokesman of the state Internet Information Office, once said that cyberspace is not a place outside the law, and no one can use the Internet to spread illegal information. This has become the red line of the most stringent regulatory policy.
Today's headlines are regulated three times in two weeks
Growing pains
Looking back on the development history of Beijing bybeat Technology Co., Ltd., the main operating body of today's headlines, it can be found that in May 2012 and two months after the establishment of the company, the content segment sub products went online. According to the data released by the team in the future, the daily living users of this product are only about 410000, and the average use time of users is only 9.7 minutes, far less than today's headlines.
In August of the same year, the headline app was released today. At the end of 2016, today's headlines revealed that the number of daily living households has reached 74 million, and the average user's use time has reached 76 minutes. According to a roadshow document circulated in 2017, as of July 31, 2017, the number of daily active users has reached 120 million, a multiple increase of the number.
This same product, once considered as Tencent News, Netease News and other clients, opens the production mode of its own content with the way of 'headline number' and subsidizing creators. With the user accumulation of today's headlines, the company is rapidly incubating multiple internal applications to drive the growth of the user's per capita use time.
According to industry analysts, today's headlines, a company that relies on the engine of distribution content and advertising recommendation algorithm, has driven the development of more than 100 application products. From the perspective of the company's key product matrix, it has almost covered multiple categories and vertical market segments, such as text, pictures and videos.
Although Zhang Yiming, in the face of interview, thinks that under the rapid growth of users, the responsibility of the platform is restraint, but he also admits that 'users need some addictions, I don't think there is much difference between playing Texas poker, drinking red wine and watching gossip and video'.
In December 2017, the state Internet Information Office guided the Beijing Internet information office to interview with the person in charge of the continuous dissemination of pornographic and vulgar information and illegal provision of Internet news and information services on today's headlines, and ordered to immediately stop the illegal activities; asked the six channels of today's headlines to suspend the update for 24 hours. After that, today's headlines used to recruit content review editors on a large scale.
Touch the alarm bell many times
Today's headlines are the most active users in news and information products. Different from the other three products in terms of product importance, today's headlines are the core business of byte beating company. Their status can be compared with Tencent's QQ and wechat.
In all silence, today's headlines have encountered severe 'penalties', and the core app' today's headlines' has suspended the download service for three weeks. The company has not publicly responded to the damage.
This is not the first time the headline has touched the red line of policy. Only in the last two weeks, today's headlines have encountered fines from Haidian Branch of Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce and interviews with SARFT.
On March 30, Haidian Branch of Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce imposed an administrative penalty on today's headlines, confiscating about 236000 yuan of advertising fee and imposing a fine of three times the advertising fee, totaling 944000 yuan. This is the largest fine since the company was founded, but the reason for the penalty has not been disclosed. In 2017, today's headlines were punished by the Bureau three times in succession because of the lack of review of advertising commodities.
On April 4, SARFT held an interview with the main leaders of today's headlines and asked for comprehensive rectification. SARFT requires a comprehensive inventory of the programs in stock, and the programs with vulgar, violent, bloody, pornographic and harmful problems on the website shall be immediately offline, and the relevant personnel shall be held responsible. SARFT said it would take further measures according to law depending on the rectification effect of the website.
On April 6, today's headlines released a notice saying that its short video platforms, such as volcano video and watermelon video, had taken off more than 10000 videos of problems, reset more than 4000 blocked problem accounts, implemented a number of rectification measures, and strongly recommended social positive energy content in the video community.