NOTE THE IMAGE OF ONE OF THE BUSH WHITE COLLAR CRIMINAL NEIL
BUSH. ONE OF THE SAVINGS AND LOANS BIGGEST CRIMINALS WHOSE
SAVINGS AND LOAN INSTITUTION LOOTED A BILLION DOLLARS FROM THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE.
THERE'S NEVER BEEN A MASSIVE WALL STREET CRIME WAVE OR WAR THAT
THE BUSH FAMILY WAS NOT IMPLICATED IN. THAT MAKE THEM MORE EVIL
THAN THE CLINTON, OBAMA AND BIDEN CRIME FAMLIES???
China Controls TikTok: Company Reveals Employees Can Decide What Goes Viral
China’s TikTok has confirmed that some of its employees have the ability to make certain videos go viral. The company claims it wields this power to “introduce celebrities and emerging creators to the TikTok community.”
The Verge reports that the company’s startling admission came as a result of TikTok’s “Heating” button, which Forbes claims can be used to add particular videos to users’ “For You” pages, thereby boosting views by avoiding the algorithm that is supposed to be the driving force behind the platform’s experience.
Jamie Favazza, a representative for TikTok, claims that heating is caused by more than just an increase in views for specific videos. He added that TikTok would “promote some videos to help diversify the content experience” This essentially means to make sure that multiple trends are featured in users’ feeds.
Favazza claims that only “.002% of videos in For You feeds” are heated, which is another indication that TikTok doesn’t do it very frequently. But an internal document that Forbes obtained claims that heated videos account for “around 1-2 percent” of “total daily video views.”
According to the report, heated videos don’t have a label indicating that they have been promoted by TikTok. Instead, they resemble any other videos that the algorithm might have chosen for users, including the American teenagers that overwhelmingly favor the platform.
The information is not entirely unexpected. For years, there have been rumors that TikTok used the promise of promoted content to persuade businesses and politicians to use its platform. Businesses, particularly those in the music industry, have been open about using the platform to promote their brands.
Furthermore, TikTok is not the only social media platform that artificially boosts video views. According to reports, Facebook knew it was displaying false view counts but delayed fixing it in order to draw advertisers and media companies to its platform. Mark Zuckerberg paid a $40 million settlement to advertisers in that case.
As Breitbart News reported:
Variety.com reports that Facebook has admitted to overstating video-viewing metrics during an 18 month period between 2015 and 2016 and will have to pay $40 million to advertisers who claim that they overpaid the firm for ads due to inaccurate data. Despite the settlement, Facebook has continued to claim that the lawsuit is “without merit.”
The proposed class-action lawsuit began in 2016 when two similar lawsuits were filed against Facebook at the same time, these were consolidated and combined with other complaints. Attorneys representing the plaintiffs stated that they planned to file a motion requesting that they get 30 percent of the settlement fund which amounts to $12 million as reimbursement of their $730,000 expenses incurred during the three year period of litigating the case.
Attorneys believe that the settlement only accounts for 40 percent of the $100 million that they estimate advertisers “may realistically have been able to recover” in court. The basis of the lawsuit was over Facebook’s method of calculating video viewing time. Facebook had a policy to not count video views that lasted less than three seconds but by discarding shorter view views, the company arrived at higher average watch times.
The revelation of TikTok “heating” implies that the Chinese company is selecting winners and losers: brands and creators might see their place on someone’s For You page taken by someone with a closer connection to the company. Forbes claims that there have been instances where employees promoted videos from friends, business partners, and even their own accounts by heating up content that they shouldn’t have.
TikTok’s lack of transparency regarding heating makes it difficult to determine which videos reached the top organically, so creators may lose interest in the platform if their videos perform poorly compared to those being boosted.
The report comes as TikTok faces intense competition from platforms like Instagram, which is pushing to pay creators for Reels, and YouTube, which recently began an effort to attract new creators by giving them a percentage of ad revenue made from YouTube Shorts.
Read more at the Verge here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan
Biden Admin Gives National Security Grants to Think Tank Backed by CCP Front Group
The Bush China Foundation supports Chinese leaders and has criticized pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong
Every year, the State Department gives $100 million in grants to fund public diplomacy programs that "enhance national security." Under President Biden, some of that money has gone to an organization with extensive ties to a Chinese Communist Party front group.
According to federal spending records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, the State Department in September gave $180,076 to the George H.W. Bush China Foundation, which has partnered with the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, an organization that promotes the interests of Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party. The China-U.S. Exchange Foundation donated $5 million to the Bush China Foundation, a significant portion of its annual revenue, in 2019, Axios reported.
The Bush China Foundation’s ties to the China-United States Exchange Foundation make it an odd choice for the government grants, which are meant to advance "U.S. foreign policy goals." The China-United States Exchange Foundation is a top organization in the Chinese government’s United Front system, which the Chinese Communist Party uses to influence foreigners in favor of Beijing’s policies.
American officials have long expressed concern that the China-United States Exchange Foundation is engaged in covert influence operations for Beijing. CIA director William Burns has said he cut ties with the organization because of its connections to Beijing after he took over at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a prominent foreign policy think tank.
The Bush China Foundation has maintained its ties to the China-United States Exchange Foundation amid scrutiny of the relationship. Neil Bush, the Bush China Foundation's founder and chair, praised the Chinese think tank’s founder, Tung Chee-hwa, at an event in January 2021. Tung is vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a political advisory group for the Chinese Communist Party.
At a Bush China Foundation event with China’s ambassador in July 2021, Bush lamented an "onslaught of anti-Chinese sentiment in the U.S. over recent years that has led to growing suspicion of China and her motives."
Bush has been an outspoken defender of Beijing’s controversial national security policies. In a 2019 interview with Chinese state television, he criticized pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong upset over a Beijing-backed national security law used to arrest dissenters and shut down news organizations critical of the Chinese Communist Party.
"My first question would be, what freedoms are you seeking that you don’t already enjoy? What setbacks have you incurred," said Bush, who also suggested that "outside forces" were behind the protests.
The Bush China Foundation also received another State Department grant to help develop a "digital mental health network" for American and Chinese "mental health stakeholders."
At an event with the China-United States Exchange Foundation in 2019, Bush said he would "advise my American friends not to meddle in the internal affairs of China."
Bush has extensive business ties to China. He came under fire during his brother’s presidency for signing business deals in China. In 2002, he received $400,000 from a Chinese semiconductor manufacturer. In 2009, he attempted to secure a deal for China’s oil company, Sinopec, to purchase oil from Ghana.
While leading the Bush China Foundation, Bush has organized an annual forum in China, the International Symposium for the Peaceful Use of Space Technology, with officials from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), a state-owned space and defense contractor that the United States has blacklisted because of its links to China’s military.
An official from the organization attended the symposium in November, where Bush served as honorary chairman. Bush leads the symposium with his partner at the Chinese property developer CIIC. In 2019, Bush and his partner, Wang Tianyi, signed a "strategic cooperation framework agreement" with CASC that called for the "exchange of international space innovation technology."
The State Department declined to comment on the grants. The Bush China Foundation did not return a request for comment.
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