Is TikTok Brainwashing Young People?
“This scaled indoctrination isn’t hypothetical. It’s real”
It’s important to point out that the TikTok young people see in the United States is not the same TikTok that young people see in China.
Jay Solomon writes at the Free Press:
New Report: TikTok Brainwashed America’s Youth
Since its U.S. launch in 2018, people have worried that the Chinese-owned social media giant TikTok is vacuuming up data on America’s teenagers and transforming them into modern, digital versions of the throngs who once enthusiastically waved Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book.
Now, an updated study conducted by Rutgers University’s Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)—provided exclusively to The Free Press—finds that those fears may be justified.
The new research is being released as the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments this week about whether the U.S. site must be sold or shut down. TikTok, owned by the Chinese media giant ByteDance, is arguing that federal legislation forcing a sale by January 19 is an unconstitutional limit on free speech. (A lawyer for Donald Trump has asked the Court to delay the sale date so the president-elect can pursue “a political resolution.”)
A preliminary version of the study was released in August and “faced significant pushback,” according to Joel Finkelstein, director and chief science officer at NCRI. The updated study has “twice as much evidence,” he said, and will be published in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Social Psychology. “It is now the first peer-reviewed, data-driven study to establish that TikTok is actively manipulating perceptions of China and the Chinese Communist Party through algorithmic bias.”
The researchers found that TikTok significantly downplayed negative content related to China, such as Beijing’s bloody 1989 crackdown on democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square and the government’s treatment of its minority population of Uyghurs in the western Xinjiang province.
The report presents TikTok as an example of the “persuasive technologies” China is developing to shape public opinion in the West. Another major conclusion of the report, based on online polling, found that the more time users spent on TikTok, the more positively they viewed China’s human rights record and its desirability as a travel destination.
“This scaled indoctrination isn’t hypothetical. It’s real,” Finkelstein told The Free Press. “I think that the Supreme Court hearing now isn’t about whether or not we’re dealing with a hypothetical threat. The Supreme Court hearing is about whether we’re going to allow this continued indoctrination.”
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It is run by the CCP directs young people to what the CCP wants them to see and hides what the CCP wants hidden.
Why was this even a question?
It’s revenge for Voice of America, and done way better.
Meanwhile, the US has turned all its propaganda efforts inwards too.
How would we know — whether they got their brainwashing from TikTok or from our Marxist-owned public education?
It is from both but that doesn’t mean we should tolerate Tik Tok.
Because they successfully correlated tik tok usage hours with Chinese propaganda metrics. It’s written above.
You have to use the right terminology. You see, these days everyone is good. Heck even Islam is good, peaceful and loving. So if a Muslim kills someone, you say, “They were radicalized”. Perhaps that’s the same as TikTok and brainwashing.
Perhaps Tik tok could brainwash Biden, He’s got the dirtiest, filthiest brain of any person alive today.
He’s got the dirtiest, filthiest brain of any person alive today.
Had. The two brain cells he had left shriveled up and died a long time ago.
This mantra does not apply to Israel
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