{"id":12382,"date":"2022-03-12T02:22:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T02:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=12382"},"modified":"2022-03-12T02:22:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T02:22:32","slug":"russian-tiktok-influencers-paid-to-spread-kremlin-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2022\/03\/12\/russian-tiktok-influencers-paid-to-spread-kremlin-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian TikTok Influencers Paid to Spread Kremlin Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>An investigation by VICE News uncovered a coordinated campaign to pay Russian TikTok influencers to post videos pushing pro-Kremlin narratives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/epxken\/russian-tiktok-influencers-paid-propaganda\">Russian TikTok Influencers Are Being Paid to Spread Kremlin Propaganda<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who it is that is making the payments has not been determined.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I stopped following or subscribing to many Russian affiliated social media channels on IG, Youtube and TikTok. I cannot determine who is honest and who is not.<\/p>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Russia has struggled to win the information war against Ukraine\u2019s social media-savvy President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, it has turned to new avenues to disseminate its disinformation, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/wxdb5z\/redfish-media-russia-propaganda-misinformation\">pretending to be a left-leaning progressive media outlet<\/a>\u00a0based in Germany, producing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/in-the-ukraine-conflict-fake-fact-checks-are-being-used-to-spread-disinformation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fake fact-checks of non-existent Ukrainian disinformation<\/a>, and coordinated TikTok campaigns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Russia is totally losing the propaganda war, as they should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VICE News confirmed that someone unknown (possibly Russia&#8217;s government?) has been paying TikTok social media influencers to spread untrue lies as propaganda messaging on TikTok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,40,41,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-propaganda","category-fictional-news","category-public-relations","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}