Social media giant TikTok has been pushing a number of Chinese propaganda ads to Europeans over the past few months.
The advertisements have been seen pushing Chinese COVID lockdowns and “tourism” in the Xinjang region, the province where Uyghur minorities are being enslaved in concentration camps.
The ads have been broadcast to millions of European users on the platform from China’s largest state media.
One propaganda advertisement, paid for by China News International, showed a man doing a traditional dance with the caption “Xinjiang is a good place!”
Another ad showed a CGTN host visiting an elementary school in Xinjiang where the Australian Strategic Policy Institute has tracked the construction of six detention facilities.
From Breitbart:
As of Wednesday, more than 1,000 ads from the communist regime’s state media outlets — such as People’s Daily and CGTN — have run on the platform since October 2022. While the ad library does not yet display data on ads presented to users in the United States, Canada, and Australia, the data does show that the propaganda ads have appeared for millions of users across Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom.
