美国国务卿蓬佩奥表示，美国正在考虑禁止抖音(国际版)等中国社媒体应用程式在美国发行。
人氣短影片平台TikTok的中國母公司週二宣布會將其應用撤出香港地區，目前正值香港的新國家安全法在各方引起種種意見和顧慮，這也是近期TikTok離開的第二個市場。與此同時，美國國務卿龐畢歐亦暗示，川普政府正考慮要在美國限制用戶對TikTok的訪問。該事件的走向凸顯出TikTok，這一中國首個真正意義上出海成功的社群媒體「當紅炸子雞」，目前所面臨的地緣政治挑戰。
A TikTok twist on ‘PizzaGate’
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| Lorna Mills |
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One of social media’s early conspiracy theories is back, but remade in creatively horrible ways.
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I talked to Sheera about how young people have tweaked this conspiracy and how internet sites help spread false ideas. (And, yes, our names are pronounced the same but spelled differently.)
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Shira: How has this false conspiracy changed in four years?
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Sheera: Younger people on TikTok have made PizzaGate more relatable for them. So a conspiracy that centered on Hillary Clinton and other politicians a few years ago now instead ropes in celebrities like Justin Bieber. Everyone is at home, bored and online more than usual. When I talked to teens who were spreading these conspiracy videos, many of them said it seemed like fun.
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If it’s for “fun,” is this version of the PizzaGate conspiracy harmless?
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It’s not. We’ve seen over and over that some people can get so far into conspiracies that they take them seriously and commit real-world harm. And for people who are survivors of sexual abuse, it can be painful to see people talking about it all over social media. |
Have the internet companies gotten better at stopping false conspiracies like this?
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They have, but people who want to spread conspiracies are figuring out workarounds. Facebook banned the PizzaGate hashtag, for example, but the hashtag is not banned on Instagram, even though it’s owned by Facebook. People also migrated to private groups where Facebook has less visibility into what’s going on.
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Tech companies’ automated recommendation systems also can suck people further into false ideas. I recently tried to join Facebook QAnon conspiracy groups, and Facebook immediately recommended I join PizzaGate groups, too. On TikTok, what you see is largely decided by computer recommendations. So I watched one video about PizzaGate, and the next videos I saw in the app were all about PizzaGate. |
TikTok is a relatively new place where conspiracies can spread. What is it doing to address this?
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TikTok is not proactively going out and looking for videos with potentially false and dangerous ideas and removing them. There were more than 80 million views of TikTok videos with PizzaGate-related hashtags.
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The New York Times reached out to TikTok about the videos, pointing out their spike. After we sent our email, TikTok removed many of the videos and seemed to limit their spread. Facebook and Twitter often do this, too — they frequently remove content only after journalists reach out and point it out.
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Do you worry that writing about baseless conspiracies gives them more oxygen?
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We worry about that all the time, and spend as much time debating whether to write about false conspiracies and misinformation as we do writing about them.
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We watch for ones that reach a critical mass; we don’t want to be the place where people first find out about conspiracies. When a major news organization writes about a conspiracy — even to debunk it — people who want to believe it will twist it to appear to validate their views.
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But to ignore them completely could also be dangerous.
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