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TikTok, Disinformation, and the Social Media Manipulation Machine: who’s bad?

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 01/22/2025 Editorials, Editorials in English

TikTok, Disinformation, and the Social Media Manipulation Machine: who’s bad? TikTok—the digital bogeyman of our times. From corrupting the youth to endangering democracy, it’s been vilified as the ultimate evil of the internet. Governments wring their hands over its alleged ties to Beijing, competitors clutch their pearls at its meteoric rise, and yet… TikTok might just be the least biased of the major platforms. Shocking, isn’t it? Meanwhile, other platforms (naming no names, but think Musk’s X and Zuckerberg’s empire) are playing the same game—just with a Western spin on the rules. Algorithms manipulate what we see, moderation policies leave…

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