NYT FREAKS: TikTok Not Doing Enough to Wipe Out So-Called ‘Election Misinformation’

The New York Times is having another meltdown over so-called “election misinformation” on social media and trying to pressure Big Tech companies to up their already bloated censorship operations. 

Times technology reporter Tiffany Hsu screeched in an Aug. 14 story headlined: “On TikTok, Election Misinformation Thrives Ahead of Midterms.” Hsu mourned that the Chinese Communist Party-tied platform’s “poor track record during recent voting abroad does not bode well for elections in the U.S., researchers said.” In fact, fretted Hsu, TikTok is supposedly “shaping up to be a primary incubator of baseless and misleading information, in many ways as problematic as Facebook and Twitter, say researchers who track online falsehoods.” 

Who is the greatest pro-propaganda-spewing leader in the entire world? Times The Arbiter for Truth?

Hsu continued to worry about the possibility of free speech on TikTok threatening to disrupt the electoral process.

TikTok is a global platform that has over one billion monthly active users. Its conspiracy theories concerning voter fraud in the November election are popularly viewed. The hashtag #StopTheSteal cannot be searched, however #StopTheSteall had already accumulated almost a million views by the time TikTok was contacted the New York Times. Some videos encouraged viewers not to vote but cited debunked rumors from the Capitol attack of Jan. 6, 2021.

Hsu harrumphed that TikTok posts her newspaper disagreed with “garnered thousands of views by claiming, without evidence, that predictions of a surge in Covid-19 infections this fall are an attempt to discourage in-person voting.” 

Oh the horror.

Following is the TikTok brouhaha The Times’ recent crying in June about how Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t doing enough to vaporize “election misinformation” on his platforms Facebook and Instagram before the midterms. 

The Times complained then that Meta’s “shift in emphasis” away from elections “could have far-reaching consequences as faith in the U.S. electoral system reaches a brittle point.” 

Meta apparently empathized with the newspaper’s crocodile tears, as it would later release a document outlining how it created “a dedicated team focused on the 2022 midterms to help combat election and voter interference while helping people vote.” 

You can make it even more Orwellian. 

Meta said it was working “with federal government partners including the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency” to construct its 2022 midterm strategy. It seems so The Times TikTok is under the same pressure. 

You can’t free speech. 

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