How TikTok opened a window into China’s police state
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Uyghurs are gaming TikTok’s algorithm to find a loophole in Xinjiangs’s information lockdown Every evening after getting back from his studies, Alip Erkin sits at home in Sydney, Australia, and opens up the video-sharing app TikTok on his Android phone. He’s looking for something in particular : videos from Xinjiang in northwest China, which he left for the last time in 2012. Since then, Xinjiang has been rapidly transformed into a vast police state, where Uyghurs, the mostly Muslim ethnic (...)
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