Research details the impact of TikTok's decision to block outside content from appearing to Russian users while allowing state propaganda
Last month, as many tech companies sided with Ukraine over Russia's invasion, TikTok appeared to follow suit by suspending new video uploads and live streams from Russia. Source: Exposed .
So much for “the first TikTok war.” In Russia, TikTok has muzzled its own users and blocked out the entire outside world, creating an alternate universe where pro-Putin propaganda thrives and no one is against the invasion. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
“People have a right to access to information, and not just information that the government wants them to hear,” @natynettle, our Tech Legal Counsel, told @WillOremus at @washingtonpost: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
I asked Hill staffers the other day if they could just have 1 platform exist: TikTok or FB? All said TikTok: “it's fun! They are just an entertainment company!” Me: They're an entertainm't co bc they censor tons of content. Just TikTok would be terrible for democracy crickets htt…
@trackingexposed To be clear, there's no evidence TikTok was specifically censoring anti-war posts in Russia. Rather, by blocking all outside posts, and blocking posts from inside but leaving loopholes that only some knew about, it (inadvertently?) created an echo chamber for pro…
New research from @trackingexposed shows how TikTok's block on new content in Russia successfully silenced anti-war views, even as loopholes allowed pro-war propaganda through. I wrote about their latest findings, released today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitte…
On TikTok, videos bearing pro-war hashtags such as “for us” and “Putin top” continued to proliferate in Russia for weeks after the block, even as previously popular antiwar hashtags all but vanished https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @WillOremus