Topics Suppressed in China Are Underrepresented on TikTok, Study Says (www.nytimes.com)

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The report, from the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University, could raise new concerns about whether Beijing influences the content on the popular video app. Representative Josh Gottheimer, Democrat of New Jersey, said the report showed that TikTok was “a tool to brazenly spread disinformation and suppress content that undermines the Chinese government.”

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[-] Cinner@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Assuming you aren't one of the many bots infesting Lemmy...

Do your ""obvious statements"" come with actual research to back them up?

Yes the US uses bots but it's mainly real people doing the job of downvoting antI-US (or pro-US depending on the sub) posts. Chinese people don't use tiktok, they use Douyin, so this would be like reddit itself suppressing those posts, which may be happening but again, did you do the research?

Saying something is not research.

[-] nekandro@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Ah yes, the "real people" like the disproportionate number of Reddit users at Eglin AFB.

[-] Cinner@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Ah yes, the infamous Elgin VPN outproxies. Where almost all traffic from anyone employed and using the internet overseas is filtered through.

If you're truly interested in our cyber warfare capabilities around that time and where they were stationed, I'd start with this primer.

Then if you're still interested, I'd read our 2025-2040 initiatives.

[-] nekandro@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

So your argument is that people who's livelihood depends entirely on the US government were spamming Reddit, but that they were obviously doing it entirely of their own volition and neither intentionally nor unintentionally spreading propaganda?

Interesting position.

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