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> No explanation of how the hashtags were determined. > Our presentation of data starts with Uyghurs and Tiananmen Square because those were two topics specifi
by Thorrez 3y ago
> No explanation of how the hashtags were determined.
> Our presentation of data starts with Uyghurs and Tiananmen Square because those were two topics specifically called out at the March 2023 Congressional hearings, and TikTok’s CEO explicitly denied that in either case were posts on those topics suppressed or in any way demoted on the platform
- ramblenode 3y agoThe Chinese-sensitive political hashtags are somewhat straightforward (they are topics that one would expect the state to be sensitive to), but there should still be a systematic procedure for choosing them to avoid biased sampling and post-hoc comparisons. The problem is more apparent with the controls: where do they come from? How were they chosen? Without this information there is no way to determine whether the categories are truly representative and whether the sensitive topics are really unique.