Senior figures at social video app pushed back on request deemed ‘sensitive’, according to report
TikTok has said it refused an attempt by the Chinese government to open a disguised account on the platform for the purpose of spreading propaganda.
The Chinese-owned social video app said the attempt was refused because the account would have violated its guidelines. Bloomberg reported that in April 2020 that a message was sent to Elizabeth Kanter, TikTok’s head of government relations for the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and Israel, raising a “Chinese government entity that’s interested in joining TikTok but would not want to be openly seen as a government account as the main purpose is for promoting content that showcase the best side of China .”
The request was deemed “sensitive” internally and opposed by senior figures at the company, according to Bloomberg. The TikTok spokesperson said the request was made by a TikTok employee on behalf of a friend. Bloomberg reported the government entity concerned was “responsible for public relations”.TikTok has more than 1 billion users worldwide and is owned by the Chinese tech firm ByteDance.
TikTok’s community guidelines state that users cannot engage in “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” where accounts “exert influence and sway public opinion while misleading individuals, our community, or our systems about the account’s identity, location, relationships, popularity, or purpose”. It has also announced that it was working on a
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