Over the weekend, news broke that three Baidu employees were arrested on suspicion of accepting payoffs in return for deleting posts from Baidu’s online forums. A fourth employee was not arrested, but was fired by Baidu. A Baidu spokeswoman told the BBC that the former employees had been paid “tens of thousands” of RMB (i.e. thousands of dollars) for the deletions, and stressed that Baidu had proactively fired these employees and reported their cases to the police.
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