Action by social media company comes after Facebook parent company Meta shut down 9,000 accounts tied to political spam network
province and negative commentary about the US, western foreign policies and critics of the Chinese government, including journalists and researchers.
The report included links to four TikTok accounts associated with the campaign, which were still active as of Wednesday. After Guardian Australia reported these accounts to TikTok, the company responded on Thursday confirming 284 accounts linked to the operation had been banned by TikTok for violating company policy against covert influence operations.
A spokesperson for TikTok did not directly answer why the company had failed to pick up the accounts, but the company’s countering influence policy states the company focuses on “behaviour and assessing linkages between accounts and techniques to determine if actors are engaging in a coordinated effort to mislead TikTok’s systems or our community”.
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