US EditionTikTok US Denies Claims It Is Censoring Content
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What the US TikTok takeover is already revealing about new forms of censorship
It’s not what we can or cannot say that matters – rather, it’s whether what we say can get any visibility at all under the US-specific algorithmWe tend to think of censorship as the direct suppression of speech. We conjure images of mouths taped shut, courts seizing books and films, and journalists or activists thrown in jail to silence their voices. But what if, in a digital era governed by invisible yet highly consequential algorithms, censors…
TikTok Raises U.S. Censorship Fears After Messages About Jeffrey Epstein Are Blocked
Last week, TikTok‘s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, finalized a deal that gave a group of U.S. investors an 80 percent stake in TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, an entity which now operates the app within the country, and has free rein to moderate content that Americans share on the video platform. The companies with stakes in the U.S. version of TikTok include Oracle, the software company founded by billionaire Larry Ellison, one of the riches…
TikTok faces app deletions, censorship claims and glitches in days after its ownership change
Censorship claims, technical problems and a report of a surge in app deletions are just some of the challenges TikTok is facing this week as it adjusts to a new ownership structure in the U.S. The company said this week it was experiencing a “major inf...
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