EXCLUSIVE: As Trump administration It works to be legally available in the United States, the wild popular application suppressed the content critical of President Donald Trump, according to a new report shared exclusively with Fox News.
Tiktok claims that the report came to a false conclusion and that researchers used concepts undergoing additional security measures because they are related to the election of disinformation or failure.
The report, from the Institute for Research of the Institute for Infectious (NCRI) at Rutgers University, contained findings that “emphasize Tikict’s ability to act as a powerful tool for influence, adaptable to partisan policy, but without inherent incentive for transparency or responsibility.”
“What you see does not delete policies about models of content that can be a battle that the public or researchers can test,” said Adam Sohn, a member of the NCRI Committee. “It seems that tictok is only choosing and Choosing your policy Based on political expeditionality and that is a great concern. “
The elected President Trump is shown in front of the Tictok logo. (Getty Images)
NCRI announced that he analyzed Tictok, X and Instagram “to evaluate their treatment with specific hashtags associated with the controversy of 2020 choice.” And that the researchers received an answer that “explicitly indicated the suppression of content based on Tikict’s implementation of their community standards.”
The group said conditions like “#riggegelection”, “#votrafraud”, “#stophesteal” and “#stolenelection” did not return the results On Tictok In the United States, researchers said that when they searched the software that replaced their home location for one abroad, these expressions gave video results.
The NCRI display display on January 24. The same day of search “#f *** Trump” did not return any. Three days later, Fox News repeated the search, and both videos are listed.
“The concern is that the Chinese Communist Party alone and Tictok can consistently twist my algorithm to cover up their marks,” Sohn said.
The Tictok Executive Director Shou Zim Chew testifies to the Energy Committee and House Trade in the Rayburn House office building on Capitol Mount March 23. 2023 in Washington, DC. The hearing was a rare opportunity for the legislators to question the leader of the Social Media Video application about a short form about the company’s relationship with its Chinese owner, Bytetlance and how to deal with sensitive personal data. Some local, state and federal government agencies have banned the use of Tiktoca, citing concerns about national security. (Photo Chip Somodeville/Getty Images)
“Our policies and algorithms have not changed in the last week,” said Tictoka spokesman.
The company holds hashtags regarding the 2020 controversy, promoted electoral misinformation, which is why they were not available. Tiktok claims that since the terms for search of anti-trump and anti-biden contain lightness, the application can limit these results. The company also says that it is experiencing technical questions because it tries to bring its service back to normal.
Last year the Congress adopted a two -party law that would ban Tictok if he is Chinese home companyBytedtance, failed to sell the app until January 19th. Earlier this month, the US Supreme Court supported the law. Bytottance is still possessing Tiktok, but Trump has signed an executive order that delayed the prohibition for 75 days, while his administration tries to negotiate an agreement to comply with the Law and continue to work in the United States
NCRI has published several reports on Tictok, concluding that the search algorithm has given results to build a favorable view of the Chinese government. Tictok denied that claim, calling Ncri’s work “flawed” and “Clearly designed to come up with a false, predetermined conclusion. “In its arguments against Tictok, the Ministry of Justice under the management of Biden cited the reports of NCRI.
SPEES OF THE APARTMENT INTEREST IN TICTOK APPLICATION On Saturday, January 18, 2025. (Fox News Digital)
Cyber experts -safety said to Fox that algorithms for apps like Tictok hold their home company and find it difficult to assess them.
“Managing these great social media platforms, especially Tictoka, which is so popular, is a Hercules of Hercules,” said Theresa Payton, a cyber -safety expert and the Chief of Information of the White House in the administration of George W. Bush. “It could happen that, as they made a twist to cope with the capacity, so that they could assess things more closely that could be understood as an optional interference, things considered to be hate speech.”
Others note that companies on social networks have considerable teams that work with automated software on moderate content on their platforms.
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“Someone interprets something like in terms of violation [that] It may not match someone else – all of this has to add up the pattern, “said Pete Pachal, founder of Media Copilot, a bulletin about the AI change of media and journalism.” In the report, they make a very good job of showing that this form of alleged repression … content that does not appear in searches usually happens more in one direction, which should arouse a certain amount of doubt. “
