China-owned TikTok is pushing a slew of Chinese propaganda advertisements to millions of Europeans in recent months. The ads tout everything from support of Chinese coronavirus lockdowns to presenting the Xinjiang region, where Uyghur minorities are forced to work in concentration camps, as a wonderful tourist destination.
Propaganda ads from China’s largest state media outlets have been broadcast to millions of European users on the platform, according to TikTok’s new ad library, obtained by Forbes.
As of Wednesday, more than 1,000 ads from the communist regime’s state media outlets — such as People’s Daily and CGTN — have run on the platform since October 2022.
While the ad library does not yet display data on ads presented to users in…
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