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The kind of content you describe is exactly the most insidious and effective "propaganda". Obviously, any given piece of content like that is not propaganda and

by creato 3y ago

The kind of content you describe is exactly the most insidious and effective "propaganda". Obviously, any given piece of content like that is not propaganda and probably wasn't produced for that purpose in the first place. But what else do you call it when (if) TikTok makes it 5% more likely you see efficient factories and farm workers in China, and 5% more likely you see the tide pod challenge or whatever dumb self destructive behavior in the US? Such a thing is almost impossible to prove or disprove, yet it would be shocking if the CCP wasn't doing this, considering they do exactly this to their own population.

nemothekid 3y ago
As a heavy user of tiktok, most of these claims are anecdotal, and people just see what they want to see. Liziqi[0] has 18M subscribers on YouTube and seems to be far more effective of "soft propoganada" than anything I've seen on TikTok. Twitter and Instagram Reels is far worse at surfacing destructive trends, it seems like a misstep for the CCP to try and push TikTok in this way when our own homemade companies are more than capable of doing it themselves. Between TikTok and IG, only one of them has a "STEM" feed; and it's unclear why its the CCP trying to push more US kids into STEM. [0] https://www.youtube.com/@cnliziqi/videos https://www.youtube.com/@cnliziqi/videos
- FooBarWidget 3y ago
  > Between TikTok and IG, only one of them has a "STEM" feed; and it's unclear why its the CCP trying to push more US kids into STEM. It's very simple: Chinese — including but not limited to the CCP — value education, especially in science and technology. Things make a more sense if people stop looking for nefarious reasons behind everything and stop looking at China as some sort of world-devouring boogeyman. I'm Chinese.
  - TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
    China rhetoric is very concerning. As the old saying goes, when people tell you who they are, believe them.

by creato 3y ago

nemothekid 3y ago

As a heavy user of tiktok, most of these claims are anecdotal, and people just see what they want to see. Liziqi[0] has 18M subscribers on YouTube and seems to be far more effective of "soft propoganada" than anything I've seen on TikTok. Twitter and Instagram Reels is far worse at surfacing destructive trends, it seems like a misstep for the CCP to try and push TikTok in this way when our own homemade companies are more than capable of doing it themselves. Between TikTok and IG, only one of them has a "STEM" feed; and it's unclear why its the CCP trying to push more US kids into STEM. [0] https://www.youtube.com/@cnliziqi/videos https://www.youtube.com/@cnliziqi/videos

FooBarWidget 3y ago
> Between TikTok and IG, only one of them has a "STEM" feed; and it's unclear why its the CCP trying to push more US kids into STEM. It's very simple: Chinese — including but not limited to the CCP — value education, especially in science and technology. Things make a more sense if people stop looking for nefarious reasons behind everything and stop looking at China as some sort of world-devouring boogeyman. I'm Chinese.
- TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
  China rhetoric is very concerning. As the old saying goes, when people tell you who they are, believe them.