TikTok has been pushing Chinese propaganda to millions of users in Europe: analysis

The NYPost (low-quality tabloid) is just echoing an actual article at Forbes, which can also be accessed in archive form here.

In general, when a low-quality tabloid site merely reports on the existence of research done by actual reporters, it's better to follow the links and post the researched article instead of the tabloid one.

Downvote everything from that fuckin rag. Don't post NYPost here. If there's a story, find a news source that doesn't itself have an outrageous history of propagandizing.

See that other article on the NYPost next to this one? A guy turned himself into a border collie? He's a dog now and it only cost $20,000.

Great news source. No problems here. Not click bait garbage at all. Nope, not meant for maximum sharing. Thanks L4sBot for your contribution.

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Breaking news! Chinese company runs ads paid for by Chinese government! Did anyone think otherwise? All governments pay for ads. Who in their right mind would think a Chinese company would refuse their government as an ad customer?

TikTok is garbage, but perhaps we should look at all the ridiculous right wing propaganda pushed by YouTube, Facebook and Twicough X

Yeah well Orwell's 1984 was way off then. The government does not even have to force people to install devices in their homes that blare government propaganda 24/7. They are doing it willingly, enthusiastiacally even, and they don't even have to be citizens of that government lol

Who would have thought?

Propaganda is alive and well in the USA too, especially if you consider it in the most liberal sense.

There's an incredible amount of advertising in the media telling me what I need to think about any issue you can imagine. Most people just ignore it, but it annoys the crap out of me. I'll make up own damn mind, thank you.

This is a modern development, you never saw that crap forty years ago. I'm old enough to remember the before time. Most of it I can avoid simply by not watching commercial TV and blocking ads on the internet. Though sometimes it squeaks through on the TV and it makes me want to throw a chair at it.

When I do have the misfortune of seeing that garbage it's usually on TV and has an Ad Council logo on it. Who are these people and how are they able to egregiously spend the large amounts of money it takes to repeat ads on TV like that. That's a lot of money consumed in a futile attempt to brainwash me through repetition.

They could take that same ad money and actually use it to provide relief for some important social issues, like starving children. Instead they'd rather use it to try and influence my opinion in a futile way. Man that is really fucked up when you think about it.

Oh no, they are polluting our own US and European propaganda.

And American social media does the same for America. Every dog barks for its master.

So has YouTube lately.

There is no currently no actual evidence that TikTok is a threat to national security, but consider this:

1. TikTok is owned by Chinese company
2. All large Chinese companies are required to have Party members in the board, making them defacto state-run
3. PR China is currently committing genocide, large-scale espionage, subversion of foreign countries and all sorts of fun stuff associated with authoritarian fascist dictatorships

Not saying it's a lie, but sourcing from NYPost is automatically a huge red flag.

I'll put more stock in this when it's reported by reputable outlets.

Are you worried about your rising cost of living, decreasing living standards, wages and the total global catastrophe that is climate change?

Don't worry about that prole, worry about aliens and tiktok!

"I cannot belive it!" - said no one ever

Isn’t that what Hollywood did for America and democratic values?

From the original story in Forbes: „Both Meta and Google label content posted by state media outlets, and in January, TikTok announced that it would join them in doing so. (Twitter formerly labeled posts by state media outlets, but discontinued the labels under Elon Musk.)“

Yeah, yeah, it's Chinese government propaganda, but isn't all advertisement basically propaganda? "Everything is rosy in Xinjiang" is a harmful lie, but so is "if you buy a big-ass truck you'll be a manly man" and frankly I think the latter is causing a lot more damage because it's one that people act on.

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No big surprise here. It's been their agenda since the start. Only consumers are fucking stupid for taking it in.

Ribbit

i'm not surprised at all with this.

Guess that explains the existence of tankies

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No way...

ooh It's another american TIktok hitpiece, where Americans blame the Chinese for same exact things that they are guilty of. I still can't believe how butthurt some US elites are about TikTok. The worlds social media monopoly is such precious thing to them.

Damn, what’s gave that away I wonder !!

How to detect if it's propaganda : I push propaganda you will not push propaganda we push propaganda they will not push propaganda.

I = my country

you = other country

We = my friends and me

They = their friends and them.

Good.

If there's to be regulation on this, it has to be universal and has to apply to all states including the US, and all social media platforms equally.

Otherwise leave it to people to decide what they want to watch. Louis Rossman's view on the matter (guy on YT who complains about Apple and other bad behaviour by big companies) changed recently. Video: I was WRONG about banning tiktok - here's why I changed my mind