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@bungalowtill
I suggest you read the study before commenting (the link works fine here, but you'll find it also in the article).
The study finds, among others, that TikTok users exhibited significantly more positive attitudes towards China’s human rights record as reports on forced labour and other human rights violations by the Chinese government are suppressed.
The Chinese government is actively silencing the views of Americans who try to criticize the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party, according to the study.
Free speech doesn't mean that foreign autocratic governments can silence Americans (nor other countries' citizens) from expressing their opinion in public forums. This is what happens on Tiktok, and, even more so, on Red Note.
Have you read the study?
Because: I still only get the names of the authors when I click the link to the study. In the article on the other hand there is a link to the “study that will be published” and it goes to the same rather blank archive url that you provided.
If the study has already been published, maybe you got another source?
Edit:
I managed to get it:
https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/Peer-Reviewed-Paper-in-Press_Dec.-2024.pdf
But yeah, I won’t read it now, cause it’s massive. That’s also why I replied to your quotes in the first place.
Also, I think we know each other from some time ago, right?