ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: TikTok Blocks Teen Who Posted About China’s Detention Camps. “The app faced renewed questions about whether it censors material after it removed an American’s video about Muslims in China.”
Concerns about major tech companies’ connections to China have grown in the past year. Short video app TikTok, which has been download over 1 billion times, in particular has been scrutinized for allegedly censoring content that could anger the Chinese government. In September, The Guardian reported on internal TikTok documents instructing the moderators to censor politically fraught topics including Tiananmen Square and an independent Tibet. The company said that these guidelines were no longer in use, and that the Chinese government has no control over them, because the app does not operate in China.
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