When China’s prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn’t just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens than as genuine human beings.
TikTok shows you what you encourage it to show you.
I’ve never seen any CCP prop, likely because I either say “not interested” or quickly scroll away from anything that is that kinda shit