Worlds apart: TikTok doesn’t show the war in Ukraine to Russian users

Worlds apart: TikTok doesn’t show the war in Ukraine to Russian users

TikTok is one of the few global social media platforms people in Russia can still access. Journalists from the Norwegian broadcasting corporation created an experiment to compare what two otherwise identical users from Ukraine and Russia will see on TikTok. Story best viewed on mobile.


From Weekly Filet #389, in April 2022.

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