Mikhail Petrov’s TikTok posts started going viral this year when he tapped into growing discontent in Russia with bite-sized explanations of the country’s budding protest movement. It has even won praise from Russian officials who say it’s more willing than some other companies to remove content. The amount of critical content has declined as TikTok uses bans to weed out undesirable posts, the person said. ‘Extremist’ banThe social media crackdown is part of a broader push to quell dissent in Russia. Access to Twitter was slowed until mid-May for failing to remove content Russia’s Internet watchdog says is illegal, while Google is facing an antitrust investigation over YouTube.

Source: The Star April 30, 2021 08:26 UTC