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A pair of TikTok accounts linked to state-affiliated media organizations are persevering with to put up on TikTok—regardless of the social media firm’s choice on Sunday to droop service for all content material coming from Russia.
The accounts come from Margarita Simonya, the editor in chief of RT, and RIA Novosti, a Russian government-run information company, each of who’ve been among the many most energetic in disseminating disinformation in regards to the Ukraine invasion, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a number one misinformation analysis group. They each converse to massive audiences: Simonya has 208,100 followers on TikTok, RIA Novosti 193,900.
Simonya’s account posted as just lately as 8 a.m. EST. RIA Novosti published a video across the similar time on Monday, considered one of a dozen it has put up on TikTok for the reason that firm introduced its ban.
TikTok’s transfer to chop off new Russian content material from its app got here after the imposition of recent guidelines within the nation barring media firms from sharing data that runs counter to the Kremlin’s model of occasions in Ukraine. A spokesperson for TikTok on Sunday stated the transfer was “rolling out throughout the app in Russia.”
