More than 1,000 ads from Chinese state media outlets have run on European users’ TikTok feeds since October 2022, according to the platform’s latest ad library update that was analyzed …

TikTok has been pushing Chinese propaganda to millions of users in Europe: analysis::More than 1,000 ads from Chinese state media outlets have run on European users’ TikTok feeds since October 2022, according to the platform’s latest ad library update that was analyzed by Forbes.

  • Doug [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
    53·
    1 year ago

    Does it count when a major political party, that does that all the time, uses the money it pilfered from that government, or is that different somehow?

    What about that the only reason they’re not doing it directly from the government account is because of the safeguards against that kind of thing they haven’t pulled down yet

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      1 year ago

      A political party is not the Government nor do their ads attempt to whitewash Government misdeeds.

      • Doug [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        A political party makes up parts of the government and uses their ads to whitewash their own actions within the government.

        This division is not at clean as you’re trying to make it