On American TikTok users cannot seatch the phrase "Donald trump rigged election", however when using a vpn to a mexican server the search does return results.
Heh, funny how that works
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I'm suspicious that the ban would have been upheld if everyone jumped over to Twitter. But the scam failed when everyone went to red note.
I guarantee people are right back on tiktok now that it's back up.
Plan b extort TikTok to do propaganda.
Plan A is do propaganda.
The apps are chapters on that plan. Meta will follow, bluesky might when somehow it's threatened with a ban.
Imagine that.
I've seen this posted elsewhere. Apparently it also doesn't show results for "Joe Biden rigged election"
Thats because they seem to have banned searches for "rigged election" regardless of what other search terms you use.
Well there is only one person who is dumb enough to try to rig an election.
That's disfavorable of Trump? I thought it was one of his main talking points.
I guess it would be disfavorable if it referred to 2024 rather than 2020, but claiming 2024 was rigged doesn't seem to be a big thing so I expect that most of the search results would have been about 2020.
There is speculation that the 2024 election was rigged and it was the most recent election so I would expect that there would be more recent posts about it than the 2020 election.
Example: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/85d8ac97-7ebe-48ba-8582-a1078511594f.png
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Shocking
Well…
So is Instagram, I have read.
Tiktok is ruined. I never used it, didn't like that it was being banned, but perhaps this was part of the deal they struck to get unbanned.
I guess just use a VPN and pretend to be from Mexico. There's some irony in it. Or better yet, not use it at all.
Tiktok isn't ruined, it's delivering exactly what it was designed to deliver: Propoganda.
Oh look it's a both-sideser
"Rigged election" and all associated searches don't return results. It's not just Trump.
Is the insanely slow loading speed from midwest.social part of the censorship?
So basically a bad conspiracy theory
I mean that is a pretty shit conspiracy theory.
Searching "Trump Election Lie" does return results. So I don't think they're actually censoring so much as stopping real misinformation.