{"id":4431,"date":"2024-09-24T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/24\/tiktok-bans-russian-state-media-accounts-over-covert-influence-operations-ahead-of-us-election\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T05:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T05:00:38","slug":"tiktok-bans-russian-state-media-accounts-over-covert-influence-operations-ahead-of-us-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.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\u2019s removed accounts associated with Russian state media for \u201cengaging in covert influence operations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of the site\u2019s efforts to prevent disinformation in the run up to November\u2019s <strong>US presidential election<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/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 \u201cforeign interference activity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>RT \u2013 which lost its UK broadcast licence in March 2022 \u2013 told Sky News the US firm was \u201ccensoring information flow to the rest of the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin said <strong>Meta <\/strong>was \u201cdiscrediting itself\u201d by banning the networks.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s been no response so far to Monday\u2019s 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok has said it\u2019s removed accounts associated with Russian state media for \u201cengaging in covert&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}