China

Catherine Salgado | October 5, 2022

American Big Tech platforms Facebook, Twitter and Google-owned YouTube allow the authoritarian regimes of China and Russia to spread their anti-American propaganda and lies online to nearly a billion followers. Meanwhile, these same platforms…

Catherine Salgado | September 22, 2022

Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok is experimenting with its policies on political accounts just 47 days before the 2022 U.S. midterm elections.

Following recent revelations of Chinese employees having access to U.S. TikTok user data,…

Brian Bradley | September 13, 2022

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard allegations of foreign governments meddling in U.S. industry. 

Twitter may have employed at least three foreign intelligence agents and kept Chinese Communist Party-linked advertising accounts on…

Paiten Iselin | September 9, 2022

The Communist China-appeasing oligarchs at TikTok have kicked the platform’s ridiculous censorship apparatus into high gear to nix free speech from its platform.

MRC Free Speech America has been tracking TikTok’s anti-American censorship…

Gabriela Pariseau | September 1, 2022
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The Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok is muzzling conservatives and free thinkers by shutting down their accounts, typically with no explanation.

Using our exclusive CensorTrack database, MRC Free Speech America…

Catherine Salgado | August 19, 2022

Major tech companies, including TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent shared details for the first time about their algorithms with the Chinese Communist Party, as the CCP demanded more user data information from companies–…

Jeffrey Clark | August 15, 2022

Over 300 employees at TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, previously worked for Communist Chinese state media publications, according to a new report.

At least “[t]hree hundred current employees at TikTok and its parent company…

Catherine Salgado | August 5, 2022

Former moderators for Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok reportedly said that their training materials included a large amount of explicit child abuse videos and images.

Former third-party moderators for TikTok from the company…

Catherine Salgado | August 2, 2022

Twitter recently removed just one of a slew of threatening tweets from the Chinese government, most of which remain posted on the platform. 

A Communist Chinese account posted multiple threatening tweets on Twitter, including the…

The Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok reached the climax of its lengthy battle with the Media Research Center’s video division by entirely axing it from the platform without notice.

An MRCTV staff member opened the TikTok App to find…

Catherine Salgado | July 29, 2022

A verified, Chinese state-affiliated Twitter account just threatened U.S. planes, saying, “[S]hoot them down.”

“If US fighter jets escort Pelosi’s plane into Taiwan, it is invasion,” Hu Xijin, a commentator for the Chinese Communist Party…

Catherine Salgado | July 29, 2022

A Chinese government public relations entity reportedly tried to open a “stealth” TikTok account to target Western audiences with propaganda.

A 2020 internal message to Elizabeth Kanter, TikTok’s head of government relations for the UK,…

Catherine Salgado | July 27, 2022

“It ends with China having all of your data,” popular podcaster Joe Rogan said of Americans’ use of TikTok on his show Tuesday.

Chinese employees from TikTok’s parent company, Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-tied ByteDance, have direct…

Catherine Salgado | July 22, 2022

Two YouTubers described as 'China's first' called SnapChat out for seemingly bowing to Chinese propaganda on Taiwan in a recent podcast.

Matt Tye and Winston Sterzel, "were the first YouTubers in China," according to their podcast…

Catherine Salgado | July 21, 2022

More than half of Americans want app stores to remove TikTok following revelations that Chinese employees can directly access U.S. user data.

According to a new survey from The Trafalgar Group, 58.6 percent of Americans want TikTok to be…

Joseph Vazquez | July 12, 2022

A leftist economist connected to liberal billionaire George Soros claimed that the Wuhan COVID-19 virus actually originated in a U.S. lab, feeding Communist Chinese anti-American propaganda.

Columbia University Center for Sustainable…

Catherine Salgado | July 11, 2022

A United Kingdom lawmaker proposed a communist Chinese-style social credit score. Wake up, West!

U.K. Conservative Party lawmaker John Penrose proposed an addition to the anti-free speech Online Safety Bill requiring platforms to…

At least one Republican senator and one Democratic senator are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate TikTok. “There is bipartisan consensus on this threat and no excuse for inaction while Americans remain at risk,” Sen. Marco…

Jeffrey Clark | July 5, 2022

The CEO of one of the largest Big Tech companies in the world appeared on Communist Chinese state-affiliated media to praise China for its “inspiring” and “innovative” app development scene. 

“I want to start by saying a few words…

Eric Scheiner | June 30, 2022

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has tweeted out his official letter asking Apple and Google remove the TikTok app from their app stores.

"TikTok is not what it appears to be on the surface. It's not just an app for sharing funny videos…