TikTok at War: Trust and Truth at a time of Conflict
summary
Platforms restrict and reroute information around Russia’s invasion: YouTube stays accessible, TikTok blocks new uploads for Russian accounts on March 6 yet allows state-aligned influencers to bypass rules, leaving 95% of content inaccessible inside Russia. Researchers build independent scrapers because TikTok provides no public API, and civil groups warn that 20 days is an eternity between policy announcement and enforcement. The EU’s DSA forces algorithmic audits and researcher access proposals resembling an IRB; independent forensic teams (Bellingcat style) provide the fastest verifiable debunks.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:20Current Situation
- 11:40The Playbook
- 16:10Digital Forensics
- 21:08Transparency
- 22:55Regulation
- 26:47European Citizens
- 29:48Communication Strategy
- 31:12Most Effective Humanizing Campaign
- 32:48European Media Bans
- 33:37Russia Today
- 35:29What is the harm
- 37:33Question for this group
- 38:02Avatars answer
- 39:11The best answer
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