More than 1,000 ads from Chinese state media outlets have run on European users’ TikTok feeds since October 2022, according to the platform’s latest ad library update that was analyzed …

TikTok has been pushing Chinese propaganda to millions of users in Europe: analysis::More than 1,000 ads from Chinese state media outlets have run on European users’ TikTok feeds since October 2022, according to the platform’s latest ad library update that was analyzed by Forbes.

          • Fisting for Freedom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            62·
            1 year ago

            As an American, I can say that my government sucks for invading Iraq and Afghanistan and face no repercussions. I did so before those wars and have done so repeatedly since.

            As a Chinese citizen, I can be arrested for singing a song about Hong Kong. Or saying that Tibet isn’t China, or that Taiwan should be left alone. God forbid I ask about what’s happening in Xinjiang. Or what happened in Beijing in 1989, or why the Great Leap Forward resulted in so many deaths of my countrymen. Or practicing Flaun Dafa, or whatever else.

            Nobody is saying the US is perfect: the US has its problems, we can and should be better. But China is never honest about their shit and punishes people who are. China’s markedly worse than the US.

            • ghariksforge@lemmy.worldEnglish
              42·
              1 year ago

              They let you complain about Iraq and Afghanistan because your complaints are irrelevant. You have no power to change policy.

              • Fisting for Freedom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                3·
                1 year ago

                I have free speech rights under the constitution. That’s not the case in China.

                Don’t shift the goal posts - there’s a huge difference between the countries, and China is strictly worse.

                • ghariksforge@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  21·
                  1 year ago

                  China did not destroy the city of Fallujah, America did. All those speech rights did not save those people who were murdered by American soldiers.

                  • Fisting for Freedom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                    3·
                    1 year ago

                    The US didn’t take over Tibet and resettle Han Chinese there (that’s genocide, deliberately destroying a culture ). The US isn’t committing a genocide on the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The US isn’t imprisoning and executing Falun Dafa adherents.

                    The US allows us to make changes for the better. We can stand for office and become ta source of change, we can band together as citizens to make change. Our system isn’t perfect, but it is dramatically better than China’s, all your cynicism aside.