The report, from the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University, could raise new concerns about whether Beijing influences the content on the popular video app. Representative Josh Gottheimer, Democrat of New Jersey, said the report showed that TikTok was “a tool to brazenly spread disinformation and suppress content that undermines the Chinese government.”

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    11 months ago

    So your argument is that people who’s livelihood depends entirely on the US government were spamming Reddit, but that they were obviously doing it entirely of their own volition and neither intentionally nor unintentionally spreading propaganda?

    Interesting position.