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Ahead of SCOTUS Hearing, Study Finds TikTok Is Likely Vehicle for Chinese Propaganda
A forthcoming paper analyzed how different social media platforms surfaced content that displayed positive and negative sentiments toward the Chinese Communist Party.
Their paper, due to be published in the journal Frontiers in Social Psychology, argues that TikTok surfaces content critical of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) talking points less often than competing platforms despite that content generating high user engagement and that Americans who were frequent TikTok users expressed more favorable opinions toward China than those who frequented other social media sites. The new peer-reviewed paper, which was first reported by The Free Press, begins by examining whether content on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube related to the keywords “Tiananmen,” “Tibet,” “Uyghur,” and “Xinjiang” tends to display pro- or anti-CCP sentiment. The more time users spent on any social media platform, the more likely they were to have favorable views of China’s human rights record, the survey showed.
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