China's Tencent bows to regulator, allows WeChat users access to rivals' links

China's Tencent bows to regulator, allows WeChat users access to rivals' links

FILE PHOTO: A Tencent logo is seen in Beijing, China September 4, 2020. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo

Tencent Holdings’s popular WeChat messaging app will start allowing users to access external links from Friday, days after regulators told the company and its rivals to end a long-standing practice of blocking each other’s links.