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TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok's political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP's Geostrategic Objectives https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf

This report highlights major differences in the prevalence of hashtags related to subjects like Hong Kong Protests, Tainanmen Square, Tibet, the South China Sea, Taiwan, Uyghurs, Pro-Ukraine, and Pro-Isreal when compared to other major social media platforms.

Additionally the times cited a Wall Street Journal analysis (https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-israel-gaza-hamas-war-a5dfa0ee) which "found evidence that TikTok was promoting extreme content, especially against Israel. (China has generally sided with Hamas.)"

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[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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“How do you arrive at any single meaning of ‘cowboy’ when the stylistic variants run from western to modern to rhinestone to preppy to line-dancing Saturday night buckaroo to Black?” he writes.

FWIW, (if this seems unhinged) this isn't part of the article text, it's just kind of a "read more stuff you might find interesting" section.