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TikTok algorithm promotes pro-Chinese Communist Party content and suppresses criticism, new study says: Company fires back, calling it ‘fiction’


TikTok algorithm promotes pro-Chinese Communist Party content and suppresses criticism, new study says: Company fires back, calling it ‘fiction’

A study by Institute for Network Contagion Research or NCRI in collaboration with Rutgers University suggests that ByteDanceThe algorithm of the company’s own social media platform TikTok promotes content that favors the Chinese government. What happened: Building on the December 2023 findings, the study found “compelling and strong circumstantial evidence” that TikTok content is manipulated […]