News Analysis Two China-based employees of ByteDance, the developer of short video app TikTok, were sentenced to prison for taking bribes to prioritize certain content on the video platform. The arrests come amidst the common phenomenon of faking popularity through Chinese online media. A Beijing court sentenced Wang Moudi to 14 months in prison and Zhang Mouying to one year in prison with a suspended sentence of 18 months. Both were fined 20,000 yuan (about $3,140). The verdict said that the men, one is 20 years old, the other 18, worked in two different associated companies of ByteDance, and were occupied with hot search and hot spot-content planning for Douyin, the Chinese version of Tiktok. The two were charged with receiving a total of 576,000 yuan ($90,400) in bribes from 2019 to 2020 and pushing specified content onto Douyin’s Hot List upon request. In July 2020, former U.S. President Donald Trump …