TikTok’s content on some political subjects aligns with the Chinese government, study says - eviltoast
  • Not_mikey@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The above reply could still be true. If you run this sort of hashtag analysis on other countries you could probably find a bunch that the platform is “favoring” .

    Hell you could uno reverse this whole argument and say meta is boosting western aligned content. Claiming Instagram is some sort of unbiased real base for social media is a bad premise.

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      11 months ago

      Yes, but the things that are specifically being favored or silenced, as the article shows, are things that the CCP wants to be favored or silenced.

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      11 months ago

      “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.”

      Or in this case, if it looks like it’s owned by CCP, takes orders from the CCP, and promotes the views of the CCP, it’s probably a CCP intelligence operation.