Ahead of SCOTUS Hearing, Study Finds TikTok Is Likely Vehicle for Chinese Propaganda
gizmodo.com
A forthcoming paper analyzed how different social media platforms surfaced content that displayed positive and negative sentiments toward the Chinese Communist Party.

Summary

A new study from Rutgers University’s Network Contagion Research Institute claims TikTok’s algorithm limits anti-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) content compared to platforms like Instagram and YouTube, despite higher user engagement with such posts.

The study also suggests TikTok users express more favorable views of China after prolonged use.

TikTok criticized the findings as flawed due to the use of simulated accounts.

The study precedes a Supreme Court hearing on whether the U.S. can ban TikTok, amid national security concerns tied to its Chinese ownership and potential CCP influence.

  • bdonvrA
    1514·
    3 days ago

    What we really need is for everything to be American/western propaganda. Can’t possibly have anything else.

    • Fades@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      We are exposed to American propaganda so why fight to also be exposed to Chinese propaganda too? It’s not like TikTok creates special content or does anything special at all.

      You clearly don’t like propaganda and for good reason, you recognize your own state’s propaganda as bad yet you want to keep a foreign state’s propaganda?

    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      86·
      3 days ago

      I checked your search history to see if you fit the obvious stereotype, and I was disappointed but not surprised.

      “Ah yes, they think China propaganda bad. Thus, they must think w e s t e r n propaganda good. Now I will skewer them with my wit.”

      • bdonvrA
        1·
        2 days ago

        I feel like my post history is pretty normal but I suppose I’m biased lol