Douyin, the Chinese TikTok sister app, says it has taken action against 417,000 accounts that promoted or enabled gambling as it steps up its World Cup crackdown.
The app, the brainchild of the tech giant ByteDance, said it had flagged all the accounts in the space of the past month, the Chinese media outlet CNR reported.
Douyin says the number includes 90,000 accounts it has permanently banned for “involvement in black market football betting activities.”
The firm said it has passed on details of several account holders to law enforcement agencies.
Chinese TikTok Douyin: We’re Working With the Police
A Douyin spokesperson said a number of criminal groups used coded or “subtle” methods to promote third-party gambling apps and websites.
Some embedded QR codes that redirected video viewers to illegal sports betting sites.
The spokesperson said all forms of gambling and “related promotional activities” violate its terms of use.
The official urged users to watch the remainder of the tournament “rationally.” The spokesperson called on platform users to “refrain from publishing or disseminating any illegal gambling-related content.”
Douyin first unveiled details of its gambling crackdown in April this year. The firm said it had begun banning over 10,000 accounts daily. Most of these used “cryptic messages” and well-known euphemisms to evade the platform’s anti-gambling algorithms.
Last month, the firm provided an update on its progress, explaining it had helped police secure the arrest of 162 suspects involved with promoting illegal gambling sites and spreading pornography.
Douyin said it had also shut down some 4,000 livestreams mid-session after detecting gambling-related references.
Customs Officials Confiscate Silver Gambling Chips
Meanwhile, Chinese police, customs officials, and courts continue a wider crackdown on gambling rings.
In Qingdao, Shandong Province, customs officials have confiscated 35 silver gambling chips that they said were “falsely declared as imported collectors’ coins,” the Chinese newspaper Dazhong Daily reported.
Customs officers said they “discovered anomalies” while performing an X-ray scan on an inbound mail item declared as “commemorative coins.”
The officers followed up with a manual inspection, which saw them discover “35 silver gambling chips” mixed in with various collector’s-item coins.
Each of the coins was marked with a face value of 100 US dollars.
Chinese law stipulates that “gambling chips” fall into the category of “prohibited items for import and export.”
The law stipulates that chips are “harmful to China’s politics, economy, culture, and morality.”
Customs officials said they will retain the chips pending further investigations.
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