Three leading Internet firms in China - Baidu, NetEase, and MoMo - have been investigated for spreading pornographic content, under a campaign aimed at cleaning up the nation's cyberspace.

Three leading Internet firms in China - Baidu, NetEase and MoMo - have been investigated for spreading pornographic content in a campaign aimed to clean up the nation's cyberspace on April 2, 2015. [Photo: baidu]

Police are investigating a column on NetEase for allegedly carrying digital novels that contain obscene or pornographic content.

The search engine giant Baidu has been fined more than 210-thousand yuan, or about 34-thousand US dollars, for carrying online publications without permit and uploading obscene and pornographic novels onto its app.

MoMo, known for its dating app, has also been fined 60-thousand yuan for carrying pictures and videos that were lewd and pornographic.

China's publication watchdog says authorities have probed the three firms after being tipped off by the public.

It says the three cases are initial results of a campaign launched this year and it will impose harsher punishments for firms that are repeat violators of the law.

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