‘Chinese Propaganda Arm’ Using TikTok to Bash ‘Mostly Republicans’: Report

Is it any wonder the DCP (Democrat Communist Party) covers for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party)?

‘Chinese propaganda arm’ stealthily using TikTok to bash ‘mostly Republicans’: report

During the 2022 midterms, the state-run account attacked Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Greg Abbott

By Scott Whitlock, FOX Business, December 3, 2022:

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Communist China’s state-run media is using TikTok – a social media site mainly popular with young Americans – to stealthily influence politics in the United States, bashing “mostly Republicans” with “divisive videos.” This is according to a new report from Forbes.

Journalist Emily Baker-White explained that MediaLinks TV, “a registered foreign agent and Washington D.C.-based outpost of the main Chinese Communist Party television news outlet,” posts videos “without clear disclosure that they were posted by a foreign government.”

Some of the videos posted in the months prior to the 2022 midterms include captions like “Cruz, Abbott Don’t Care About Us,” “Rubio Has Done Absolutely Nothing.” In her piece, Baker-White wrote, “Nothing in these videos disclosed to viewers that they were being pushed by a foreign government.”

According to Forbes, MediaLinks TV “criticized some candidates (mostly Republicans), and favored others (mostly Democrats).”

One of the largest accounts run by MediaLinksTV is @NewsTokks. Many of its videos focus on abortion, gun control (one example was entitled “A Uniquely American Plague”), structural racism. Baker-White explained these are “all topics that were also used by Russian election meddlers seeking to divide Americans and weaken confidence in democratic institutions.”

The Forbes article noted that there is some identifying information on the MediaLinks accounts. Profile bios read: “Material distributed by MediaLinks TV LLC on behalf of CCTV. More info at DOJ, D.C..” But as Baker-White stated, most don’t click on bios. And those who do might not know that CCTV stands for the state-run China Central TV.

TikTok is owned by the Beijing-based ByteDance. As Forbes pointed out, that company allegedly “instructed employees working on one of its other apps, a now-defunct news aggregator called TopBuzz, to push pro-China messages to U.S. users.” (ByteDance has denied this.)
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Snowedin

1 year ago

TikTok has been bashing and banning conservatives and their comments for quite awhile. TikTok is owned and run by the Chinese and people need to boycott it,

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VTS

1 year ago

China invested lots of money in Biden family.

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