Alibaba-operated search engine Quark has been fined and ordered to remove harmful content from its platform after a regulatory investigation found it was hosting pornographic information, according to China's Cyberspace Administration.

据中国网信办消息，阿里巴巴运营的搜索引擎Quark已被罚款，并被责令从其平台上删除有害内容，此前监管部门调查发现其托管色情信息。

The CAC issued a statement on Monday, saying that the Quark platform failed to comply with relevant management requirements, as it displayed a significant amount of obscene and pornographic information in search results and recommended explicit and vulgar keywords to users.

CAC周一发表声明称，Quark平台未遵守相关管理要求，因为它在搜索结果中显示了大量淫秽色情信息，并向用户推荐了露骨和低俗的关键词。

Chinese Twitter-like social media platform Weibo received administrative punishment for failing to block the dissemination of pornographic and vulgar content on its platform, China's anti-pornography watchdog said on Friday.

中国反色情监管机构周五表示，中国类似推特的社交媒体平台微博因未能阻止其平台上色情和低俗内容的传播而受到行政处罚。

According to an investigation organized by the National Office for the Fight Against Pornography and Illegal Publications, multiple registered Weibo users posted materials that contain pornographic content on the platform between December 2018 and December 2020.

据全国“扫黄打非”办公室调查，2018年12月至2020年12月期间，多名实名注册的微博用户在该平台发布色情内容。

Over the past year, China cracked six criminal cases of disseminating pornographic and illegal information on Weibo, according to the office.

中国国家网信办表示，过去一年，中国破获了六起在微博上散布色情和非法信息的刑事案件。

Two Chinese internet companies have been fined for spreading pornographic and harmful information on their platforms, China's top office against pornography said on Thursday.

Baidu, the country's largest searching engine, and Damai, an online ticketing platform, were respectively ordered to pay 20,000 yuan ($2,954) and 50,000 yuan ($7,380) in fines for their misconduct, according to the National Office against Pornographic and Illegal Publications.

The office said it found that pornographic comics encouraging young people to commit crimes were spreading on a Baidu forum between April 2014 and January.

Data released by the office in January showed that authorities last year deleted about 6.18 million online posts containing pornographic and vulgar information, and closed 26,000 illegal websites.

Last month, more than 9,800 self-media accounts were punished in the campaign to crack down on illicit activities on social media, including spreading rumors or pornographic information, by the Cyberspace Administration of China.