news events: The system included the creation of a new code to attach to some China stories, called Restricted News, according to Xinhua China. As a result, Refinitiv's customers in China have been denied access to coverage of one of the biggest news events of the year, including two Reuters reports on downgrades of Hong Kong by credit-rating agencies. Internal Refinitiv documents show that over the summer, the company installed an automated filtering system to facilitate the censoring. As anti-government demonstrations engulfed Hong Kong in August, Reuters broke a sensitive story Beijing had rejected a secret proposal by city leader Carrie Lam to meet several of the protesters' demands in a bid to defuse the unrest. A state-run newspaper denounced the story as fake and shameful. The story buttressed a main claim of the protesters, that Beijing is intervening deeply in the affairs of the semi-autonomous city.
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