Microsoft Bing’s censorship in China is even more extreme than Chinese companies

Citizen Lab research shared with Rest of World found that Microsoft's Bing censors translation results in China more extensively than major Chinese services such as Baidu Translate and Tencent Machine Translation. In testing, Bing returns a blank output whenever the input mentions President Xi Jinping, while Baidu, Tencent and NetEase silently omit only the triggering sentences. The report analyzed 10,000 censorship applications across five translation services, and Citizen Lab also found that Bing's China search engine blocks more website domains than Baidu. Microsoft did not respond to requests for comment.