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Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2025
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This is because Tiktok slows spread of anti-CCP content and boosts pro-CCP content. Exactly like they keep swearing they don’t. ByteDance answers to their State Capitalism daddy Xi, they are not independent as they claim.
Whatever anyone China-affiliated says they're not doing, it's a safe bet that's exactly what they're doing.
I'm not going to push any conspiracy theories, but I believe the strongest evidence pointing towards Covid-19 originating in a lab is the Chinese government insisting that it didn't, while prohibiting anyone not under their control from investigating. That doesn't mean it did originate from a lab, but if anything, that's what it points to. To be explicit: My impression is that, currently, most available evidence points towards natural origins. However the Chinese government has done its best to convince me otherwise.
All I‘m saying is that said lab was one of the largest ones in the world to research SarS at that time and if my memory serves me right was only one of three in the world to research the type of SarS that could infect humans. Cave bats knowing to carry it naturally don‘t live anywhere near that region either (a detail most people probably never even considered). That makes the whole food stall theory doubtful with this giant lab next door.
Mix that with how the local and then national Chinese government have mismanaged the outbreak every step of the way (I still remember the terrifying headlines from late 2019 of warning doctors that vanished and fleeing international journalists vividly, so don‘t tell me that didn‘t happen) and it looks a whole lot like a classic lab leak combined with no action to contain it because then you would have to admit something went wrong. Because yes, lab leaks do happen from time to time but they‘re usually contained, but there are no signs containment was ever a priority in Wuhan apart from blocking national flights (international flights still went in and out though. The government didn‘t even issue a warning. Gotta keep the trade flowing I guess.).
It‘s also extremely valuable to actually listen to virologists word for word because what they have said many times is that Covid-19 just doesn‘t look like a virus you would make in a lab, implying it would be reckless to do research on something like that. That‘s the sole reason they disprove of the lab theory. They blindly trust their Chinese colleagues to work as vigilant and exemplary as they do when the timeline points to the opposite.
I doubt we will ever see any proof of a lab leak because Chinese officials have swept that lab and the records squeaky clean before they allowed any foreign investigation of the site. The lab leak theory is by far the most plausible one and believe me when I say it will happen again because those corrupt structures are still intact.
The first week of the pandemic, a youtube channel posted ALL the info on the lab leak, it was scrubbed off the face of the internet. Showed the lab and the food stall the lab worker went to nearby. Also that a california lab was sharing reasearch with said lab in wuhan and stopped just a bit prior to the leak.