Chinese authorities are currently taking action against the social network and game provider Tencent. In Beijing’s Haidian district, the public prosecutor’s office filed a lawsuit because the youth protection mode of the popular messenger WeChat is not supposed to comply with official requirements. The public prosecutor did not disclose details of what requirements were meant. Playtime restricted for teenagers and in-game purchases WeChat is said to have had over 1.2 billion users in 2020, at least 100,000 of them outside of China. The messaging service has an integrated payment system called WeChat Pay and can be used for video chats,...