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Exclusive: As Trump’s administration It works to keep Tiktok legally available in the United States, the popular and popular application has deleted critical content with President Donald Trump, according to a new shared report exclusively with Fox News.
Tiktok maintains that the report has reached a false conclusion and that researchers used terms subject to additional security measures because they have been associated with misinformation or electoral profanity.
The report, from the Institute of Research in Contagion of the Network (NCRI) of the University of Rutgers, contained findings that “emphasize Tiktok’s ability to act as a powerful tool of influence, adaptable to partisan policy, But without any inherent inherent in transparency or accountability. “
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“What you are seeing is not policies swept around moderation of content that can be tested by the battle for the public or by researchers,” said Adam Sohn, a member of the NCRI Council. “Tiktok seems to be a kind of collection and Choose their policies Based on political expedition, and this is a great concern. “
President -elect Trump is shown in front of Tiktok’s logo. (Getty’s pictures)
Ncri said he analyzed Tiktok, X and Instagram “to evaluate his manipulation of specific hashtags associated with the 2020 election controversy and that researchers received a response that” explicitly stated the suppression of content based on the application of the application of the application of the application of content Tiktok of their community rules. “
The group said terms as “#riggedelection”, “#voterfraud”, “#stopthestteal” and “#stolenelection” About the truth U.S. researchers said that when they sought software that changed their home location abroad, these terms produced video results.
Screenshots provided by NCRI show a January 24 Tiktok search for “#F *** Joebiden” which returned 37,000 results. A search the same day for “#f *** Trump” did not return any. Three days later, Fox News replicated his search and there were videos on the list.
“The concern is that the Chinese Communist Party and Bytedance and Tiktok can constantly modify their algorithm to cover their clues,” said Sohn.
Tiktok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, testifies to the House Commerce and Energy Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building in Capitol Hill on March 23, 2023 in Washington, DC. The audience was a rare opportunity for legislators to question the short -ighted social media video application leader about the company’s relationship with its Chinese owner, bytedance and how they manage the sensitive personal data of the sensitive data Users. Some local, state and federal government agencies have banned Tiktok use by employees, citing concerns about national security. (Photo of Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“Our policies and algorithms have not changed last week,” said a Tiktok spokesman.
The company maintains the hashtags on the election controversies of 2020 have promoted electoral misinformation, which is why they have not been available. Tiktok maintains that since anti-trump and anti-bids search terms contain profane, the application may limit these results. The company also says that it has technical problems, as it tries to return its service to normal.
Last year, Congress passed a bipartisan law that would ban Tiktok if it were Chinese parents companyBytedance, he could not sell the application on January 19. Earlier this month, the United States Supreme Court confirmed the law. Bytedance still owns Tiktok, but Trump signed an executive order that delayed the application of the ban for 75 days, while his administration tries to negotiate an agreement for the application to comply with the law and maintain the operation in the United States. .
Ncri has published several reports on Tiktok, and concluded that his search algorithm resulted in a favorable vision of the China government. Tiktok has denied this allegation, calling the work of ncri “defective” and “clearly designed to reach a false and default conclusion“In its arguments against Tiktok, the Biden administration’s justice department cited NCRI reports.
A screenshot of an update to the Tiktok application on Saturday, January 18, 2025. (Fox News Digital)
Cybersecurity experts told Fox that algorithms for applications like Tiktok are detained by their matrices companies and can be difficult to evaluate.
“Making a kind of this community management of these vast social media platforms, especially Tiktok, so popular, is a Herculose task,” said Theresa Payton, an expert in cybersecurity and head of information at the White House in the Administration George W. Bush. “It could be that, as they did retouching to manage the ability, to be able to evaluate more closely the things that could be perceived as election interference, things that are considered a hate speech.”
Others notice that social media companies have important teams that work with automated software to moderate content on their platforms.
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“Someone interprets something like in terms of rape (this) may not match someone else, but everything has to join a pattern,” said Pete Pachal, the founder of The Media Copilot, a newsletter on the Bulletin at l ‘AI changing the media and journalism. “In the report, they do a very good job to show that this pattern of supposed repression … The content that does not appear in the searches usually happens in one direction and this should arouse a certain suspicion.”
