TikTok has served up a flood of ads from Chinese state propaganda outlets to millions of Europeans in recent months, according to a new ad library published by the company on July 20. The promotions range in topic from defenses of Chinese Covid-19 lockdowns to adorable cats playing on the Great Wall of China to efforts to recast the country’s Xinjiang region. U.S. government have branded the Chinese government’s campaign of mass repression, imprisonment and “reeducation” as a genocide, promoted by one state media account.
