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.
Exactly, you should only use platforms that are vehicles for good old US of A propaganda. The ruling class surely has your best interests in mind, let them control the information you can access!
Why are you so desperate to continue to receive Chinese propaganda? TikTok ain’t shit, it’s a 10 second video hosting service.
Yes we are exposed to plenty of American propaganda so why fight to keep Chinese propaganda in the mix?
The ruling class doesn’t have our best interests in mind, but the CCP does?
It’s not a compelling argument but there’s an argument to be made that even just having more propaganda sources in the mix (as opposed to only American propaganda) is healthier than not.
Homogenizing and normalizing only American propaganda globally is kinda the status quo
it’s odd that they defined chinese propaganda as being less anti-chinese compared to american social media platforms.
As long as Americans stay so rabidly sinophobic, that might as well be the actual definition.