{"id":1607855,"date":"2022-08-16T07:16:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T11:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607855"},"modified":"2022-08-16T08:57:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T12:57:33","slug":"revealed-new-york-times-asked-communist-chinese-tech-company-to-censor-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/revealed-new-york-times-asked-communist-chinese-tech-company-to-censor-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"REVEALED: New York Times Asked Communist Chinese Tech Company To Censor Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frevealed-new-york-times-asked-communist-chinese-tech-company-to-censor-americans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607855&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The New York Times asked TikTok, a social media app with known connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), to censor American users sharing election integrity concerns on its platform.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/14\/business\/media\/on-tiktok-election-misinformation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent article<\/a> titled, \u201cOn TikTok, Election Misinformation Thrives Ahead of Midterms,\u201d Times writer Tiffany Hsu details how \u201cTikTok is shaping up to be a primary incubator of baseless and misleading information\u201d ahead of the 2022 midterms, with the issue of voter fraud being a prominent topic shared across the platform. Buried within the article, however, Hsu tacitly reveals that as a result of the Times reaching out to the CCP-connected company, TikTok began censoring users from using a popular hashtag associated with fears about election interference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaseless conspiracy theories about certain voter fraud in November are widely viewed on TikTok, which globally has more than a billion active users each month,\u201d the article reads. \u201cUsers cannot search the #StopTheSteal hashtag, but #StopTheSteallll had accumulated nearly a million views until TikTok disabled the hashtag after being contacted by The New York Times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hsu goes on to note the platform\u2019s failure to address the spread of \u201cmisinformation\u201d in foreign elections, citing those in France and Australia as examples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe app [also] struggled to tamp down on disinformation ahead of last week\u2019s presidential election in Kenya,\u201d Hsu wrote, referencing a report by Odanga Madung, a researcher for the Mozilla Foundation. \u201cMr. Madung cited a post on TikTok that included an altered image of one candidate holding a knife to his neck and wearing a blood-streaked shirt, with a caption that described him as a murderer. The post garnered more than half a million views before it was removed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/05\/big-tech-should-ban-invasive-tiktok-app-that-mines-personal-data-for-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> by Federalist Senior Contributor Helen Raleigh, TikTok \u201cis owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based internet company\u201d and \u201ccollects an enormous amount of data on its users, including IP addresses, browsing history, and biometric information.\u201d While ByteDance argues that American user data \u201cis safe because it is stored on U.S. soil,\u201d China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/beijings-new-national-intelligence-law-defense-offense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">national intelligence law<\/a> mandates that \u201call Chinese tech companies must turn over any data they collect if the government demands it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[A] recent\u00a0BuzzFeed News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/emilybakerwhite\/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>, based on leaked internal TikTok meetings, shows that ByteDance\u2019s Chinese employees have repeatedly accessed nonpublic U.S. user data,\u201d Raleigh said. \u201cOne employee of TikTok\u2019s trust and safety department said in a September 2021 meeting that \u2018Everything is seen in China.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actions by the Times to push TikTok into censoring Americans isn\u2019t the first time the news outlet has played footsy with the CCP. Late last year, the Times faced public backlash after <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/02\/marco-rubio-blasts-new-york-times-for-hiding-xi-jinpings-role-in-uyghur-genocide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">purportedly downplaying<\/a> the role Chinese leader Xi Jinping played in the genocide of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor unknown reasons, the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0appears to have intentionally withheld documents that directly linked top Chinese Communist Party officials, including General Secretary Xi Jinping, to the ongoing genocide of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region\u201d wrote Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio in a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/2021\/11\/rubio-to-new-york-times-why-did-you-cover-up-xi-jinping-role-in-genocide\">\u00a0letter<\/a>\u00a0to New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger. \u201cIn those now-released \u2018Top Secret\u2019 transcripts \u2014 documents that the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0has allegedly had in its possession since at least 2019 \u2014 Xi explicitly authorized changing local counterterrorism laws, rounding up and sentencing Uyghurs, the use of forced sterilization, and the use of slave labor in Xinjiang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paper has since denied such accusations, with Assistant Managing Editor for International Michael Slackman claiming Rubio was \u201csimply wrong on the facts.\u201d But a pattern seems to be emerging.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Shawn Fleetwood is an intern at The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He also serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. 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