{"id":7992,"date":"2024-09-24T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T11:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/24\/tiktok-bans-russian-state-media-accounts-over-covert-influence-operations-ahead-of-us-election\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T11:38:13","slug":"tiktok-bans-russian-state-media-accounts-over-covert-influence-operations-ahead-of-us-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/24\/tiktok-bans-russian-state-media-accounts-over-covert-influence-operations-ahead-of-us-election\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok bans Russian state media accounts over \u2018covert influence operations\u2019 ahead of US election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok has said it&#8217;s removed accounts associated with Russian state media for &#8220;engaging in covert influence operations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part of the site&#8217;s efforts to prevent disinformation in the run up to November&#8217;s <strong>US presidential election<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-outbrain\" data-target=\"\" data-widget-mapping=\"\" data-installation-keys=\"\">    <\/div>\n<p>Accounts affected are those from media group Rossiya Segodnya, which owns the RIA Novosti and Sputnik news services; and TV-Novosti, the parent body of the RT news channel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TikTok<\/strong> said the accounts were previously restricted in the UK and EU, and that their worldwide content was marked as state-controlled media.<\/p>\n<p>However, they are now understood to have been permanently banned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>It follows a <strong>similar move last week by Instagram and Facebook owner Meta<\/strong>, which banned Rossiya Segodnya, RT and others for &#8220;foreign interference activity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>RT &#8211; which lost its UK broadcast licence in March 2022 &#8211; told Sky News the US firm was &#8220;censoring information flow to the rest of the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin said <strong>Meta <\/strong>was &#8220;discrediting itself&#8221; by banning the networks.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been no response so far to Monday&#8217;s announcement from TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>The bans come after the US filed charges this month against two RT employees for allegedly trying to hire an American company to produce online content to influence the election.<\/p>\n<p>In July, the US Department of Justice also shut down nearly 1,000 social media bot accounts it said were created to spread Russian disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian state was infamously accused of interfering in the 2016 presidential election, with a Senate committee concluding there was a sophisticated campaign to help get Donald Trump elected.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, TikTok is itself on shaky ground in the US, where a new law <strong>threatens to ban it<\/strong> over concerns it might share data with the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok has said it&#8217;s removed accounts associated with Russian state media for &#8220;engaging in covert influence operations&#8221;. 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