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TikTok begins removing videos with climate change misinformation
Yahoo! News ^ | April 21, 2023 | by Mariella Moon

Posted on 04/21/2023 4:49:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Last month, TikTok updated its community guidelines to add policies that prohibit videos with climate change misinformation on the app. As The Daily Beast notes, the change is taking effect today, April 21st. According to the service's announcement, TikTok will no longer allow content that "undermines well-established scientific consensus" regarding the climate crisis.

TikTok will still allow videos that tackle discussions about climate change, such as government policies related to it, as long as they don't go against scientific consensus. However, it will start deleting content that violate its new policy today, and any user searching for climate information will be directed to "authoritative information" that TikTok had decided on in partnership with the United Nations.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 04/21/2023 4:49:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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...as long as they don't go against scientific consensus...

What the hell is that?
2 posted on 04/21/2023 4:54:04 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Chinese who own tic tok are the filthiest polluters on the planet. Hypocrisy rules!


3 posted on 04/21/2023 4:54:08 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Like NYC had a mile thick glacier over it a mere 20,000 years ago?

Will TikTok also remove the ground down glacier boulders in Central Park?


4 posted on 04/21/2023 4:55:00 AM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We all have to add some more Global Warming skeptical videos to Rumble and other venues, then.


5 posted on 04/21/2023 4:55:31 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Misinformation all depends on who are the ones telling it. What is needed here is both sides of the story so a person can eventually determine the truth.


6 posted on 04/21/2023 4:55:47 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Vaquero

Don’t say that on tik tok. It goes against the scientific consensus.


7 posted on 04/21/2023 4:58:13 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Information like this?

China builds about two new coal power plants per week. The report by energy data organizations Global Energy Monitor and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air finds the country quadrupled the amount of new coal power approvals in 2022 compared to 2021.

Pretty TikTok wants that info suppressed.

8 posted on 04/21/2023 4:58:42 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: ComputerGuy

No consensus step in Scientific Method.

Questioning science IS Science.

Oh yeah, Scientific Method has no Policy step either. That’s politics.


9 posted on 04/21/2023 4:59:59 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s all it takes on communist Facebook to get a temporary ban, a picture of Goebbels. I posted a meme of him saying propaganda works best on those whom think they are using their own free will.

It’s true, him saying it is true.

Yet I was restricted for a month. I’ve never got more than a U-turn ticket yet I have a rap sheet on Facebook 1/2 as long as your arm. Not even exaggerating.


10 posted on 04/21/2023 5:00:00 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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The climate is always changing. Those who believe in made made climate change can’t prove their theories. So there’s no way to judge information as misinformation.


11 posted on 04/21/2023 5:03:46 AM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: epluribus_2

Any scientific community lost its credibility by ignoring its own scientific method.


12 posted on 04/21/2023 5:04:00 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy
...as long as they don't go against scientific consensus...

"What the hell is that?"

It's whatever we say it is, comrade.

13 posted on 04/21/2023 5:11:43 AM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

TikTok will not get banned. They cut a deal with the globalists to be another enforcer of their agenda, silencing dissent as instructed.


14 posted on 04/21/2023 5:11:56 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The tactic is to pacify part the angry crowd so they don’t hang them so much and they stay in business. The overlords don’t care as they will do as they need because tic toc does not matter to them other than a monitoring and collection platform. Government policy will not be determined that way.


15 posted on 04/21/2023 5:12:08 AM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: ComputerGuy

What the hell is that?

Quite simple, really.

It is whatever our ruling classes say it is.


16 posted on 04/21/2023 5:12:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: 2banana

Cleveland was until 12,000 years ago.

Here is a handy little timeline I found for comparison…

170,000 years ago - widespread clothing use
120,000 years ago - started making jewelry
70,000 years ago - started making drawings
60,000 years ago - invented bow and arrow technology
42,000 years ago - invented musical instruments
35,000 years ago - first anatomical sculpture
30,000 years ago - first woven fabric
23,000 years ago - first domesticated dogs
20,000 years ago - first pottery
15,000 years ago - first stringed instrument

12,000 years ago - Cleveland and nearly all of Canada was under 2 miles of ice and had been for 200,000 years (since back when we started using clothing)


17 posted on 04/21/2023 5:16:08 AM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wow.

The Chicoms are using this to termite our society.


18 posted on 04/21/2023 5:18:15 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: ComputerGuy

it’s like when the scientific consensus was that the earth was flat!


19 posted on 04/21/2023 5:19:58 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"TikTok will no longer allow content that "undermines well-established scientific consensus"

Here's one more reason to avoid TikTok. "Well-established scientific consensus" is a lie created by the media and perpetuated by the media. REAL scientists scornfully belittle it.

TikTok's communist task-masters in China push this lie in order to destabilize the West. They know it isn't true. That's why they're building hundreds of coal powered electricity generating facilities to increase the standard of living of the billion peasants in China. The want to turn the US into a nation of peasants in order to control us.

20 posted on 04/21/2023 5:22:43 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The power of the press is not in what it includes, rather, it's in that which is omitted.)
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