TikTok is not much different than Instagram and Youtube Shorts in the western world. That it is heavily moderated in China would not surprise me either. But i wouldn't call that an "agenda"

What else is it then? An instrument in the hands of a dictatorship.

Let's ban schools because they can be used by dictatorships to inoculate their propaganda?

Yea we should ban schools ran by foreign dictators on American soil. Any more obvious questions?

Are you saying TikTok is inoculating Chinese propaganda in Americans' minds? Are you really saying that?

I’ve seen it, there’s a ton of evidence of it

They are much much different.

TikTok is full of anti America propaganda. It rarely gets removed. Anything anti China doesn’t last long.

Instagram has hardly any anti China or anti America propaganda. And it’s certainly not recommended to you within minutes of using the app for the first time.

Opened TikTok in Taiwan and almost immediately got anti America propaganda. Blaming America for covid.

The opposite is absolutely true.

Try and question "America's greatest ally ever" and their policies and see how long you last on these platforms.

When critiquing china, remember that you're essentially looking in the mirror.

That’s funny because this argument has been exposed as complete bullshit in the last month. You should find a better example to try and be dishonest about nowadays. Social media is extremely anti-Israel and now everyone knows it

> Social media is extremely anti-Israel and now everyone knows it

People generally don't hold ethnic cleansing in high esteem.

There’s no ethic cleansing unless you follow the propaganda that Palestine has existed for 1000s of years and Israel stole all the land and has been attacking everyone around it.

First weeks I used TikTok, I got all kind of anti-anything, from the local right to local left, from global KKK to whatever global hippies are called today. Any propaganda to burn whichever evil empires in the creators corner of the world exist. Guess it had some hard time to find my political niche and started with too little information about me.

On Instagram on the other side, I've never seen any serious amount of political messages, but they all want to sell me merch, cat-toys and nerd-toys from any point of the spectrum. Likely be because they have more information about me. And these days, TikTok is pretty much like Instagram, all cats and nerds and the occasional call for blood from those plebs who break their spaghetti.

So I don't think it's that any platform is full of this or that, but it very much depends on what the platforms think what might be interesting for you, and the rest you just don't see until it really floods the platform hard.

Aren't those just moderation policies adapted to local markets?

If you go to Douyin's search page https://www.douyin.com/search/ and focus the search bar, it'll show two sets of recommendations. The first is "for you" and, if they don't have a profile on you, likely a reflection of the most popular content. The second is a ranking of "hot topics", where Xi Jinping gets a dedicated top spot above number 1. Obviously that's because he'd only rarely rank near the top organically. But even with that extra promotion, most people will simply ignore it, so it's more of a fig leaf to keep the government content while users keep watching basically the same stuff as anywhere else.

Tik Tok is very good at targeting to the user. My Tik Tok doesn’t have any liberal stuff on it at all.