According to South China Morning Post , the message was confusing to Tencent Video, which was posted on August 12.
The newsletter quoted the disaster department in Shandong Province as saying almost all of the people in the area were killed and seven people were missing.
A message later reported a total of 5 deaths when Typhoon Lekima swept the area. Shandong is one of the most populous provinces in , with a population surveyed in 2016 of up to 99 million people.
On August 12, Tencent Group’s video-sharing website made major changes on social network Weibo. The notice said the previous content about the situation in Shandong was inaccurate and due to "editorial errors".
The company apologized for the consequences of the error message, pledging to tighten the work monitoring process. Sina News posted a screenshot of an internal exchange that showed the entire crew who made the message was fired. Chinese technology company denied this and declined to comment.
Tencent Video is China’s largest video sharing platform, with more than 900 million mobile users each month and 89 million subscribers by March.
Lekima has the fifth most devastating effect among the strongest storms that have landed in China for 70 years. destroyed many houses and infrastructure in Shandong and many other places in Eastern China over the weekend.
At least 49 people have died since the storm hit Wenling, Zhejiang Province on August 10 and swept across Shanghai, Jiangsu and Shandong.
