In order to maintain a green and healthy content ecology and purify cyberspace, Toutiao has always been committed to building a platform environment full of creativity and innovation, and has always maintained a zero-tolerance attitude towards plagiarism of other people's works. In order to ensure that every creator's creativity and labor achievements are duly respected and protected, and to create an online atmosphere that respects intellectual property rights and respects the spirit of originality, the platform resolutely cracks down on plagiarism, and issues relevant intra-site message warnings to 20,000+ accounts that have violated the platform's governance regulations in the past week, and has adopted traffic restrictions and controls for more than 200,000 plagiarized contents.
If the account that has received the warning again has plagiarism, manuscript washing and other violations, the platform will upgrade the account in accordance with relevant governance norms and laws and regulations.
1. The platform's governance methods for duplicate content
The platform's means of governance against duplicate content include, but are not limited to:
- Message warning
- Content and account traffic limits
- Account credit points will be deducted
- Forbidden words
- Deduction of profits made through violating content
2. Platforms crack down on duplicate content types
Content identified as duplicates includes, but is not limited to:
- The content is repetitive, and the amount of information is exactly the same
- The content is washed, and the amount of information is almost exactly the same
- The content has been converted by pictures/text, etc., and the actual amount of information is consistent
3. How to report duplicate content
The platform calls on users to jointly maintain a healthy and orderly online ecology, and if there is any bad behavior such as plagiarism on the platform, it can be reported in the following ways:
- Content details page→ upper right corner [··· → select [Content Report] in the pop-up window at the bottom→ report → select [Plagiarize other people's works] → you can note the link of the relevant work in the report description
- Send details to the reporting email: [email protected]
For reports and complaints of relevant information, the platform will verify and handle them as soon as possible. Toutiao will work with the majority of users to resist bad and harmful information and purify cyberspace.