POV: It's January 19th

[apfelwoischoppen@lemmy.world]

Problem is that insta also had the same content and plenty of folks saw it there too.

[lugal@sopuli.xyz]

Jokes on you, I use lemmy

[lauchs@lemmy.world]

It'd be much more surprising to see the Awmerican government manipulating the algorithms etc to push propoganda narratives whereas it's a pretty safe assumption that's the case on tiktok.

[whatamlemmy@lemmy.world]

FreeDumb️

[7dev7random7@suppo.fi]

The last panel also hurts us - fellow non-americans

[prunebutt@slrpnk.net]

What kind of propaganda is the CGP pushing, exactly? Is it with us in the room, right now?

[pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz]

Lemmy begs to differ

[pugjesus@lemmy.world]

This is not news,

This has been known for years.

I promise, the CCP does not need you to play devil's advocate; they advocate plenty well for themselves.

[prunebutt@slrpnk.net]

The researchers found that while TikTok might not deliver more pro-CCP content, it did deliver less anti-CCP content than the rival platforms.

Umm, that's not really propaganda, homie. That's simple censorship. There's a difference.

[pugjesus@lemmy.world]

The very next thing said in the article:

The team next looked at engagement to see if this explained why anti-CCP content was performing less well. But it found that TikTok users “liked or commented on anti-CCP content nearly four times as much as they liked or commented on pro-CCP content, yet the search algorithm produced nearly three times as much pro-CCP content”. This didn’t happen on Instagram or YouTube.

[prunebutt@slrpnk.net]

Yes. I already said it was censorship. Again: how is this pro-CCP propaganda? Do you understand the difference between censorship and propaganda?

[pugjesus@lemmy.world]

Yes. I already said it was censorship. Again: how is this pro-CCP propaganda? Do you understand the difference between censorship and propaganda?

If you don't think that suppressing content that goes against a point of view whilst simultaneously boosting content that agrees with a point of view is propaganda, I suppose you must think Twitter's recent developments over the past two years (or so? Time is getting fuzzy) are not a propaganda effort either.

[de_narm@lemmy.world]

There are multiple instances pushing propaganda and most data can just be scraped by bots. It may be harder, but capitalism finds a way.

[prunebutt@slrpnk.net]

My point is: if we all would use a more broad definition of the term propaganda, instead of calling nothing but political messaging we didn't like propaganda, we'd all live in a more politically literate society.

I think this meme actively reduces media literacy.

[nougat@fedia.io]

Dude is just arguing semantics, that “propaganda” necessarily has to be a misleading message in favor of its sender.

Of course, tailoring of information by omission is also propaganda.

[samus12345@lemm.ee]

And the very next day:

[lightnsfw@reddthat.com]

As if any of the other social media networks aren't doing the same shit. I'd rather have China spy on me than an American company. They can't use my data to fuck me over.

[prunebutt@slrpnk.net]

My point is that propaganda is not necessarily evil. I dislike propaganda from the CCP as much as the next non-tankie. But claiming "this platform is spreading propaganda, therefore evil" is ignorant as best and condoning the other imperialist propaganda at worst.

Know it's from China and don't believe anything Tiktok says on the CCP. Done.

I happen to like the Palestine propaganda on Tiktok and dislike the imperial core censoring dissidents, that's all.

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

It's subtle propaganda via algorithm manipulation

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

The multiple instances: