This study is from a US non-profit called Network Contagion Research Institute with everything that you would expect from it.
The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) provides pioneering technology, research, and analysis to identify and forecast cyber-social threats targeting individuals, organizations, and communities. The NCRI is committed to empowering partners to become proactive in protecting themselves against false narratives that create rifts of distrust that impact institutions, capital markets, public health, and safety.
(Emphasis mine)
The reports on their website are indicative of their staunch anticommunism, especially when it comes to “CCP” (aka the Communist Party of China):
https://networkcontagion.us/reports/
Their list of strategic advisors is also indicative of their political tendencies:
https://networkcontagion.us/strategic-advisors/
In other words, no surprise here, the class interests are as visible as can be, but now the libs who desperately want to ban TikTok have a study they can point at and say “evil CCP”.
Yeah, it was Chinese propaganda on tiktok that made me hate the empire. Not the empire backing colonizers blaring the shittiest EDM that no amount of Molly short of an overdose would make tolerable while playing with the lingerie and toys of their female and child victims. It definitely wasn’t their right to R protests. It was China and definitely not the countless bodies of mangled toddlers we have seen the past 15 months.
Edit: Even before that, there wasn’t a week that I wouldn’t think about abu ghraib at least once as an example of what can be done to brown and black people by the empire with zero consequences.
American propaganda is the only reason Americans still show up at work. And the truth is now called foreign propaganda because it undermines their propaganda.
Yep, reality and US reporting is worlds apart.