Social media rivals Meta and YouTube have announced similar suspensions of Russian state media accounts this month.
TikTok said Monday it had removed accounts belonging to the Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik for engaging in what it called “covert influence operations.”
The social video app said in a statement on its website that it removed accounts associated with TV-Novosti and Rossiya Segodnya, the parent organizations of the RT television network and the Russian news agency Sputnik. TikTok said the accounts had violated its community guidelines, in particular its ban on deceptive behavior.
The associated accounts are now permanently banned, a TikTok spokesperson said in an email.
One side says the Chinese company that owns part of them has an outsized influence and gets all the data back. The other side says they only get anonymous headcount data and points out TikTok global is run from a South East Asian country I can’t remember right now, (but not China), and TikTok US is run from Los Angeles.
That’s about as good as you’re going to get without made up stuff until more evidence comes out in court. When I say made up stuff I mean like allegations of fixing the algorithm to turn all the kids communist. For which no public evidence has been offered, just politicians asserting that on camera.
Thank you for giving an objective overview of the matter. I’ve been on the internet forever and the only pro communist stuff I ever see is here on Lemmy lol