10.03
·Developing
·Importance III
·Sources 1
At Beijing time October 3, 2026, the account China Digital Times (@CDT) published its "404 Deleted Content Archive" roundup for August 2026. The report reviewed and archived representative topics and articles that were censored and deleted on the Chinese internet that month, covering cross-talk comedian Guo Degang, sexual assault at a dinner party, Huawei and "Bamboo Cicada," security checks around Tiananmen, the box-office dark-horse phenomenon of the film "Niu Lai," and the Jilong floods, along with related public opinion and reports.
09.28
·Developing
·Importance III
·Sources 1
On September 28, 2026, the account @CDT published a translated article of a censored commentary about Beijing's ban on drone storage. The article points out that the logic behind the new rule is to shift the boundary of security prevention directly from the sky down to the level of device possession, sparking discussion about the relevant policies and the control of personal devices.
09.20
·Verified
·Importance III
·Sources 2
On September 20, 2026, Beijing time, China Digital Times (@CDT) published a report revealing the list of sensitive words used by ByteDance content moderators. The lexicon contains 5,241 sensitive words, covering political figures and their family members, historical and political events, firearms and other prohibited weapons, as well as various scandals and controversial incidents, exposing the platform's strict internal content control mechanism.
06.24
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·China
On June 24, 2026, China Digital Times publicly released 718 internal censorship directives from LeTV, detailing the complete process by which internet regulators issued deletion and filtering orders regarding leaders and sensitive incidents from 2017 to 2020.