The Yahoo news app has been removed from the Apple App Store in China.
Beijing’s crackdown on foreign content and influence in China has affected everything from private school curricula to karaoke bar songs.
Chinese government censors have always tightly controlled news and information, blocking access to foreign media websites and social media networks, such as the BBC, New York Times, Facebook, Google and Twitter.
JUST IN: Yahoo News app removed from Apple store in China.
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 20, 2021
Exclusive: Chinese internet users have lost one of their last avenues to foreign news after the Yahoo Finance app disappeared from Apple’s store, as the Communist Party intensifies its censorship of information from abroad | @sophia_yan https://t.co/LLW2Bt0JjL
— Telegraph World News (@TelegraphWorld) October 20, 2021