Alibaba’s payment app Alipay hit with sexually explicit content backlash

Alibaba’s mobile payment app Alipay was this week in the middle of a social media backlash, after new social features were manipulated to create a sexually explicit dating service.
Lucy Peng, the chairwoman of Ant Financial, the payment affiliate of Alibaba, was forced to apologise, according to an internal letter seen by Reuters.
She announced that the company had to remove a group from its ‘circles’ social feature called ‘schoolyard diary’ that some social me