{"id":583,"date":"2025-03-10T05:49:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T03:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2025-05-25T08:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T05:03:51","slug":"583","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted has-body-font-family\">TikTok can be your window into China's foreign politics. You just have to recognize what content bypasses its robust algorithm.<br><br>A video with nature? \u2014 Sure, I love those. Japanese women being cute? \u2014 Yes, please. A Family Guy episode? \u2014 Of course. A video in support of Ukraine? \u2014 Definitely, always promote those. A video about linguistics or outer space? \u2014 Cool, let's check it. But then you do another swipe, and there: \"Hooray! Some rich guy in America gets murdered! Proletarians of the world, celebrate! Proletarians of the world, unite!\" \u2014 What is this shit? I never interact with it, often press \"not interested\" even, but it keeps popping up.<br><br>That's how I knew China wasn't really interested in helping Moscow with its propaganda: TikTok never promoted it (russian retards spamming in every comment section notwithstanding). It was sometimes shown on YouTube, more frequently on Instagram, but never on TikTok, for some reason.<br><br>There are two major projects on TikTok that I see consistently bypassing the algorithm. One is to brew class division inside the US. Another is to promote a positive image of China. There could be more, which I don't discern, or which appear under different circumstances.<br><br>May 25, 2025<br><br>Well, in reality, there's also other content that's being pushed despite the fact I'm never interested in it. For example, \"men = bad\" and \"AI = bad\" type of content. I dunno why I didn't mention it. Maybe I thought it's not curated like \"murica bad\" and \"china good\" and it's just the algorithm being not-so-sophisticated and showing me whatever the braindead masses fancy. Or maybe I've gotten used to some of it and stopped noticing.<br><br>Anyway, I'm grasping at straws here, pretending to see how the strings are being pulled behind the curtain.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok can be your window into China&#8217;s foreign politics. You just have to recognize what content bypasses its robust algorithm.A video with nature? \u2014 Sure, I love those. Japanese women being cute? \u2014 Yes, please. A Family Guy episode? \u2014 Of course. A video in support of Ukraine? \u2014 Definitely, always promote those. A video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}