"Chinese social media companies condemn hate speech against Japanese after knife attack," 1 July 2024

China's top social media companies have condemned online hate speech targeting Japanese, delivering a vigorous response to comments triggered by a knife attack last week that killed one person and injured a Japanese mother and child.

Such waves of sentiment, and a vocal nationalist element, are not uncommon, but companies from WeChat-owner Tencent (0700.HK) , to TikTok's ByteDance-owned sister-site Douyin, Weibo (9898.HK) and NetEase (9999.HK), condemned last week's remarks.

"These comments have disrupted the positive and peaceful atmosphere of the platform and even incited unlawful behaviour," Douyin said in an online post on Sunday, citing "extreme and erroneous statements" that were "promoting xenophobia"...

Tencent said it had tackled 836 instances of related content that infringed its rules.

"Some netizens incited confrontation between China and Japan, provoked extreme nationalism, and concocted various extreme remarks online," it said in online comments on Saturday...