On American TikTok users cannot seatch the phrase "Donald trump rigged election", however when using a vpn to a mexican server the search does return results.
Heh, funny how that works
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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I'm suspicious that the ban would have been upheld if everyone jumped over to Twitter. But the scam failed when everyone went to red note.
I guarantee people are right back on tiktok now that it's back up.
Plan b extort TikTok to do propaganda.
Plan A is do propaganda.
The apps are chapters on that plan. Meta will follow, bluesky might when somehow it's threatened with a ban.
Imagine that.
I've seen this posted elsewhere. Apparently it also doesn't show results for "Joe Biden rigged election"
Thats because they seem to have banned searches for "rigged election" regardless of what other search terms you use.
Well there is only one person who is dumb enough to try to rig an election.
When was the last time you made this query? Did you only attempt it recently? Because it looks like TikTok is also blocking searches that make Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Bugs Bunny look bad too.
It turns out its Rigged Election that can't be searched.
Please do better validation.
Filtering “rigged election” and only in the US is still pretty damn sus though
Question is, how long has this been the case? If only got banned after they were unbanned in America and Trump became president, it is functionally the same thing.
No one knows. There is no evidence this was searchable before the shutdown. Zero. Combating misinformation about the election has been going on for years on social media. This measure is most likely been in place to stop people from spreading misinformation about him loosing in 2020.
Besides, the ops title is a flat out lie. You can search disfavorable things about trump on tiktok in the USA.
I'm fine with agreeing that there is no way to be sure if this is a recent change. But I'm not going to agree that it was probably in place since 2020, as there is no evidence for that either. I can't afford them the benefit of the doubt when they've openly praised Trump already. I actually find it quite unlikely that TikTok as a platform would give a shit about combating misinformation about America in America.
It's all just guesses at this point.
Why wouldn't they? In 2020 Trump signed an executive order in an attempt to get TikTok banned. After that is when we had Trump fuming about a rigged election and the events of January 6th, which were all over every social media platform. On their "Combating Misinformation" page, they talk about election integrity several times. Most social media have a misinformation policy since 2016 because there were questions about that election too. It's incredibly likely this has been in place since 2020.
That's disfavorable of Trump? I thought it was one of his main talking points.
I guess it would be disfavorable if it referred to 2024 rather than 2020, but claiming 2024 was rigged doesn't seem to be a big thing so I expect that most of the search results would have been about 2020.
There is speculation that the 2024 election was rigged and it was the most recent election so I would expect that there would be more recent posts about it than the 2020 election.
Example: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/85d8ac97-7ebe-48ba-8582-a1078511594f.png
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Saw a thread saying it blocks “rigged election” no matter what name you put in front of it.
That's true, and its possible its been like that for a long long time.
Shocking
Well…
So is Instagram, I have read.
Tiktok is ruined. I never used it, didn't like that it was being banned, but perhaps this was part of the deal they struck to get unbanned.
I guess just use a VPN and pretend to be from Mexico. There's some irony in it. Or better yet, not use it at all.
Tiktok isn't ruined, it's delivering exactly what it was designed to deliver: Propoganda.
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"Rigged election" and all associated searches don't return results. It's not just Trump.
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