Ai TikToker tedeschi piace la Cina, la Russia di più, mostra un sondaggio
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-tiktokers-like-china-russia-more-poll-shows-2025-01-20/
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Ai TikToker tedeschi piace la Cina, la Russia di più, mostra un sondaggio
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-tiktokers-like-china-russia-more-poll-shows-2025-01-20/
di P4ris3k
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# German TikTokers like China, Russia more, poll shows
BERLIN, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Germans who get their news through TikTok are less likely to see China as a dictatorship, be less critical of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and be more sceptical about climate change and the utility of vaccines than consumers of other media.
The findings, in a poll by Allensbach for a foundation linked to Germany’s liberal, pro-business Free Democrats, showed that only users of Elon Musk’s platform X came close to the same propensity for believing in conspiracy theories as TikTok users.
Coming as debates rage in the U.S. over whether a law shutting the Chinese-owned app down on national security grounds should be enforced or not, the poll provides ammunition to those who say the platform spreads misinformation that risks undermining pluralistic democracies.
Recent regional and European Parliament elections have shown that young people, the heaviest users of the video-sharing platform, are particularly likely to back the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, now second in polls ahead of Germany’s Feb. 23 election.
The poll of some 2,000 people conducted at the end of 2024 found consumers of traditional media were far more likely to view Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as illegal and believe Germany should support Kyiv – something the AfD opposes.
TikTok, whose parent company is China’s ByteDance, did not immediately respond to a request to comment on the survey.
Researchers have warned that foreign actors, especially Russia, are actively seeding popular social media platforms with disinformation designed to advance their agenda – a phenomenon most recently seen in Romania where a social media campaign helped a pro-Russian outsider storm to a shock victory in a presidential election that was later annulled.
While 57% of German newspaper readers and 56.5% of public TV viewers fully agreed that China was a dictatorship, only 28.1% of those who got news from TikTok did so. Those who got their news from X, YouTube and podcasts fell in between.
Where 40.2% of national newspaper readers fully agreed it was important the West backed Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, only 13.6% of TikTok users and 29.8% of X users did so. The survey did not address whether the sharply differing views were the result of the information offered on the platforms themselves or because their users already held different opinions on public affairs.
But the under-29s, the heaviest users of TikTok, were more likely to bear the marks of its information environment: only 71% of the under 29s believed vaccines had saved millions of lives, falling to 69% of TikTok users.
TikTok users were also less likely than consumers of traditional media to believe China and Russia spread false information and more likely to believe the German government did so.
“Young people are far more vulnerable to information and TikTok plays a decisive role,” said Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, deputy chair of the foundation that commissioned the survey. “We mustn’t allow Chinese and Russian misinformation to spread in our midst.”
Ban this cancer thats tiktok now.
Fuck the cancer that is TikTok.
Ban this propaganda brain rot bullshit.
So?
Chinese propaganda app leads to users with sympathies towards China and its allies.
More news at 11.
Honestly TikTok’s algo must be really good, because I have never come across anyone on the app that believes that way. I’m in my perfectly curated bubble/echo chamber I guess.
Banning tiktok for harboring conspiracy nutjobs is like sinking a ship because it has rats… Facebook literally won Brexit vote, X won the US elections, and now on anything meta you can call a woman your personal belonging and call her the R word for disagreeing. I don’t see even remotely the same kind of criticism for those platforms.
Either get a grip and fine these companies to bankruptcy for what they are allowing or ban everything, but this selectively critical approach is just hypocritical and cringe.
Tiktok is the biggest brain rot.
Maybe because it shows the people and not the governments?
U/muzsynat I’m a little lost on this one, how do I blame the us government fo this?
Russia can go to hell but I have nothing against China. I’ve never used TikTok in my life.
A lot of y’all were criticizing the US for banning TikTok but apparently it’s okay for Europe to do so?
I don‘t get the headline when the text states that other US owned social media platforms have the same polling results.
It just shows how good the Chinese and Russian interference campaigns have been so far.
People who take what they see on social media for the truth, are more easily influenced.
What a surprise … unfortunately most of the young people who now get their “news” from Tiktok will be voters for a long time (in contrast to boomers who believe what they read on Facebook).
Tiktokers are only the scum of the Earth. Big surprise.
Let’s take down Facebook and twitter too, that shit is vile.
Speaking of alliances, I don’t trust the US anymore than China, not after Trump got elected and went on full retard mode.
Ban TikTok, FB, X
Free of speech is overrated anyhow
We need to ban Facebook and YouTube Shorts too because there are Russian bots and brainrot, addictive doomscrolling content and even mild erotic content in FB reels
And propaganda anti-Ukrainian bot farms
We will ban it too, right?
Right?
From India. Even though our Govt. is not perfect, banning Tiktok in 2020 on national security grounds was one of the best decisions they took. Considering how gullible the Indian population is and the massive cycle of misinformation, it would have been disastrous for us to let Chinese propaganda infiltrate.
Sad to see that US and European countries did not foresee this.
Before you all start calling for TikTok to be banned, consider that standards need to be consistent. Musk actively uses his platform to promote his own agenda and meddles in our politics. Zuckerberg isn’t impartial to politics either.
What we need are not bans, but strong rules to enforce transparency about the algorithms and content filters these platforms use. We have a right to know what algorithms they use on us.
Tbh I’d rather be “””””friends””””” with China rather than the US right now.
This is funny because, in my experience with tiktok (and I’m from Serbia) not once have I seen positive content about Russia. And as for China, only in recent days, when Americans discovered the Chinese version of the app and learned about their affordable education and healthcare, there has been some positive mention
It’s almost like, and you won’t believe this, *you* build *your own* content with the algorithm the app uses 🙃
Shocking, I know
But let’s disregard that and instead ban the social media use to our people, like in… you know… Russia and China.
The zoomers are actually regarded.
They totally lost the mind. Sometimes you have to distinguish facts, partial facts, and evidence.
Being suspiscious or distrustful of your own government is a good thing as long as it doesn’t go to obsession like anti-vaccine stuff…
The poll in the article is about who deliberately spreads misinformation not about whether tiktok users like russia or china so why is the article talking about how german tiktok users like russia or china?