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TikTok bans Russian state media accounts over ‘covert affect operations’ forward of US election

By Editorial Board Published September 24, 2024 2 Min Read
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TikTok bans Russian state media accounts over ‘covert affect operations’ forward of US election

TikTok has mentioned it is eliminated accounts related to Russian state media for “engaging in covert influence operations”.

It is a part of the location’s efforts to stop disinformation within the run as much as November’s US presidential election.

TikTok mentioned the accounts have been beforehand restricted within the UK and EU, and that their worldwide content material was marked as state-controlled media.

Nevertheless, they’re now understood to have been completely banned.

It follows the same transfer final week by Instagram and Fb proprietor Meta, which banned Rossiya Segodnya, RT and others for “foreign interference activity”.

The Kremlin mentioned Meta was “discrediting itself” by banning the networks.

There’s been no response up to now to Monday’s announcement from TikTok.

The bans come after the US filed expenses this month in opposition to two RT workers for allegedly attempting to rent an American firm to supply on-line content material to affect the election.

In July, the US Division of Justice additionally shut down almost 1,000 social media bot accounts it mentioned have been created to unfold Russian disinformation.

The Russian state was infamously accused of interfering within the 2016 presidential election, with a Senate committee concluding there was a classy marketing campaign to assist get Donald Trump elected.

Sarcastically, TikTok is itself on shaky floor within the US, the place a brand new legislation threatens to ban it over considerations it’d share information with the Chinese language authorities.

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