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TikTok

2026-05-07T01:52:45Z

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[[File:TikTok logo.png|thumb|Logo]]
'''TikTok''' is a [[social media]] platform owned by [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] company [[ByteDance]], which hosts user-submitted videos ranging in duration from 15 seconds to 10 minutes. In 2021, TikTok had over a billion users, including 70 million in the [[United States of America|United States]].<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=[[Alan Macleod]]|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=The NATO to TikTok Pipeline: Why Is TikTok Employing So Many National Security Agents?|date=2022-04-29|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826100307/https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336/|archive-date=2022-08-26|retrieved=2022-08-31}}</ref>

Despite being owned by a Chinese company, TikTok is not available in China, where a similar app called [[Douyin]] is used instead. TikTok and Douyin have almost the same user interface but no access to each other's content. Their servers are each based in the market where the respective app is available.

== Controversies ==

=== Attempted ban in the United States ===
The [[Government of the United States of America|US government]] has made repeated attempts to censor or ban TikTok, claiming that the platform constitutes a "threat" to its national security. However, it has been unable to provide any evidence of the alleged "espionage" by TikTok, while international media outlets have noted that the United States itself has a documented history of engaging in espionage and mass surveillance.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[Al Jazeera]]|title=US says China can spy with TikTok. It spies on world with Google|date=2023-03-28|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/3/28/bid-to-ban-tiktok-raises-hypocrisy-charge-amid-global-spying|retrieved=2026-04-26|quote=[United States lawmakers] did not mention how the US government itself uses US tech companies that effectively control the global internet to spy on everyone else... There have been some indications that US officials see China, not TikTok itself, as the ultimate concern... In 2021, the most recent year for which data is available, the US targeted 232,432 “non-US persons” for surveillance, according to government data.}}</ref> Extensive lobbying efforts against TikTok by US billionaires and corporations revealed that the true objectives of the US government involve ambitions of political and economic hegemony.<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[Ben Norton]]|newspaper=[[Geopolitical Economy Report]]|title=US TikTok ban aims to weaken China & protect Big Tech monopolies|date=2024-03-18|url=https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/03/18/us-tiktok-ban-china-tech-monopolies/|retrieved=2026-04-20|quote=This is part of a technological war that Washington is waging against Beijing. The US is essentially trying to block competition from Chinese tech companies, to protect Big Tech monopolies in Silicon Valley... For its part, Meta (which has tens of billions of dollars of contracts with multiple US government agencies) has spent years lobbying against TikTok.}}</ref>

In 2020, the US government tried to make Walmart or [[Microsoft Corporation|Microsoft]] buy TikTok, forcing the company to organize "Project Texas" and fill its ranks with officials from the [[Imperialism|imperialist]] [[United States Intelligence Community|secret police]]. The buyout deal was cancelled as a result.<ref name=":1" />

The state of [[Montana]] in the US attempted to institute a statewide ban on the usage of the application with the initial ban being planned to take effect on January 1, 2023 but the ban was blocked by US District Judge Donald Molloy.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Ma Jiangjiang oh|newspaper=Global Times|title=US judge blocks Montana’s TikTok ban as Washington urged to stop crackdown and consolidate momentum of thawing bilateral ties|date=2023-12-01|url=https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202312/1302864.shtml|retrieved=2023-12-01}}</ref>

==== Impact ====
Many TikTok users in the United States protested against the attempted ban by migrating to [[RedNote]], a domestic Chinese platform, while expressing skepticism and ridicule at the US government's propaganda narratives.<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSkAbDbvVOY|channel=[[Carl Zha]]|title=American TikTok Refugees and Chinese compares Grocery/Medical Bills on RedNote|date=2025-01-17}}</ref><ref>{{Video citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdHW33QE15o|channel=[[BreakThrough News]]|title=‘Turning Chinese’: Gen Z Memes Undermine Anti-China Propaganda|date=2026-02-11}}</ref>

=== Censorship ===
Censorship on Tiktok has greatly increased since the addition of employees linked to the [[National Security Agency]]. As of 2022, TikTok has deleted at least 320,000 [[Russian Federation|Russian]] accounts and labelled 49 as "Russian state-controlled media." [[Bourgeois media|Western state-controlled media]] outlets do not have similar warning labels.<ref name=":0" />

=== Government connections ===
Victoria McCullough worked for the [[Department of Homeland Security]] and had connections to the [[President of the United States|White House]], now works in the trust and safety division of TikTok.<ref name=":0" /> Her colleague Kathryn Grant worked for the White House for three years and later for the [[United States National Security Council|National Security Council]] and [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]] before becoming TikTok's Trust and Safety Manager. TikTok crisis manager Jim Ammons spent 21 years as an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] unit chief.<ref name=":1" />

==== CIA ====
* Casey Getz, who worked for the CIA for 11 years and eventually became a branch chief, now works on data security for TikTok.<ref name=":1" />
* Threat analyst Beau Patteson worked for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] and as a military intelligence officer for the United States.<ref name=":0" /> He continues to work for the U.S. military while serving as TikTok's Trust and Safety Manager.<ref name=":1" />

==== NATO ====
* Feature Policy Manager Greg Andersen worked on psychological operations for NATO until 2019.
* Foard Copeland worked for NATO and the [[United States Department of Defense|U.S. Department of Defense]].
* [[Canada|Canadian]] Content Policy Lead Alexander Corbeil is also the vice president of the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|NATO]] Association of Canada.<ref name=":0" />

==== U.S. State Department ====
* Christian Cardona, who worked for the State Department in [[Republic of Poland|Poland]], [[Republic of Türkiye|Turkey]], and [[Sultanate of Oman|Oman]], served as TikTok's Product Policy Manager for Trust and Safety from 2021 to 2023.
* Brad Earman, TikTok's Global Lead of Criminal and Civil Investigations, worked as an [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] special agent for 21 years. He also worked as an anti-terrorism manager for the State Department.
* Mariola Janik previously worked for the [[Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs]], [[United States Department of State|State Department]], and Department of Homeland Security. In September 2022, she became TikTok's Trust and Safety Program Manager.
* Katrina Villacisneros, TikTok's Recruiting Coordinator, worked for the State Department's Office of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs and oversaw cyberattacks as part of the [[Army Cyber Command]].
* Ryan Walsh, Escalations Management Lead for Trust and Safety at TikTok, spread pro-NATO propaganda as a digital strategy advisor for the State Department.<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=TikTok: Chinese "Trojan Horse" Is Run by State Department Officials|date=2023-04-13|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-by-state-department-officials/284353/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230416052947/https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-by-state-department-officials/284353/|archive-date=2023-04-16|retrieved=2023-04-16}}</ref>

== Alternatives ==

* [https://douyin.com Douyin]

== References ==
[[Category:Social media]]

Sino-Soviet split

2026-04-24T00:05:50Z

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The '''Sino-Soviet Split''' was a period of worsening diplomatic relations between the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]] and the [[People's Republic of China]] that arose from the [[Nikita Khrushchev|Khrushchevite]] [[Revisionism|revisionist]] clique's takeover and subsequent decisions and legislation. The USSR deviated from the correct [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] line of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] which was implemented under [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]'s terms as general secretary.{{Citation needed}}

== Background ==
In 1961, at the 22nd Congress of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]], [[Nikita Khrushchev]] claimed that the party and the broader Soviet state, had become representative of not the proletariat, but "the whole people"<ref name=":2">{{Citation|author=[[Nikita Khrushchev]]|year=1963|title=Communism -- Peace and Happiness for the Peoples (Collected Speeches of Nikita Khrushchev from January-December 1961)|title-url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/khrushchev/1961/khrushchevcommunismvol2.pdf|chapter=Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to the 22nd Congress of the C.P.S.U., October 17, 1961|page=112|quote=Thus, now class relations in our country have entered a new stage. "Proletarian democracy" is becoming "socialist democracy of the whole people".|mia=https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/government/party-congress/22nd/khrushchev-reports-22ndcong-v1.pdf}}</ref>. In Khrushchev's view, the [[Soviet Union]] had reached such an advanced stage of socialism that class struggle was no longer the primary purpose of the [[state]]. Instead, it was a purely administrative apparatus used for workers' self-management of the economy. This theory was considered by [[Mao Zedong]] and the [[Communist Party of China]] to be a fundamental [[revisionist]] betrayal of Marxism-Leninism, tantamount to calling for the overthrow of the proletarian state and the restoration of capitalism. Mao published a 1964 pamphlet titled [[Library:On Khrushchov’s Phony Communism and Its Historical Lessons for the World|''On Khrushchov’s Phony Communism and Its Historical Lessons for the World'']], in which he harshly criticized Khrushchev and the CPSU for these stances, calling them the "revisionist Khrushchov clique".<ref name=":999">{{Citation|author=[[Mao Zedong]]|year=1964|title=On Khrushchov’s Phony Communism and Its Historical Lessons for the World)|title-url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1964/phnycom.htm|quote=The Programme put forward by the revisionist Khrushchev clique at the 22nd Congress of the CPSU is a programme of phony communism, a revisionist programme, against proletarian revolution and for the abolition of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the proletarian party.
The revisionist Khrushchev clique abolishes the dictatorship of the proletariat behind the camouflage of the "state of the whole people", changes the proletarian character of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union behind the camouflage of the "party of the entire people", and paves the way for the restoration of capitalism.|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1964/phnycom.htm}}</ref>

Mao emphasized the fact that [[continuation of class struggle under socialism|class struggle continues under socialism]], including both internal and external bourgeois subversion and attempts at capitalist restoration, by quoting Lenin.<ref name=":933499">{{Citation|author=[[Mao Zedong]]|year=1964|title=On Khrushchov’s Phony Communism and Its Historical Lessons for the World)|title-url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1964/phnycom.htm|quote=For a very long historical period after the proletariat takes power, class struggle continues as an objective law independent of man’s will, differing only in form from what it was before the taking of power.

After the October Revolution, Lenin pointed out a number of times that:

a) The overthrown exploiters always try in a thousand and one ways to recover the "paradise" they have been deprived of.

b) New elements of capitalism are constantly and spontaneously generated in the petty-bourgeois atmosphere.

c) Political degenerates and new bourgeois elements may emerge in the ranks of the working class and among government functionaries as a result of bourgeois influence and the pervasive, corrupting influence of the petty bourgeoisie.

d) The external conditions for the continuance of class struggle within a socialist society are encirclement by international capitalism, the imperialists’ threat of armed intervention and their subversive activities to accomplish peaceful disintegration.

Life has confirmed these conclusions of Lenin’s.

In socialist society, the overthrown bourgeoisie and other reactionary classes remain strong for quite a long time, and indeed in certain respects are quite powerful. They have a thousand and one links with the international bourgeoisie. They are not reconciled to their defeat and stubbornly continue to engage in trials of strength with the proletariat. They conduct open and hidden struggles against the proletariat in every field.|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1964/phnycom.htm}}</ref>

== Impact ==
While the Sino-Soviet split began as an ideological disagreement between the Soviet Union and China, the conflict was deliberately exploited by the [[United States]] to weaken the global communist movement and advance its own [[Imperialism|imperialist]] ambitions.<ref>{{Citation|last=|first=|author=[[Brian Becker]] and [[Eugene Puryear]]|year=2015|title=Imperialism in the 21st Century: Updating Lenin’s Theory a Century Later|page=34|city=San Fransisco|publisher=Liberation Media}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Sino-Albanian split]]
* [[Yugoslav–Soviet split]]

== References ==
[[Category:Sino-Soviet split]]
[[Category:Ideological conflicts]]
[[Category:Cold War]]

TikTok

2026-04-20T04:03:05Z

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[[File:TikTok logo.png|thumb|Logo]]
'''TikTok''' is a [[social media]] platform owned by [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] company [[ByteDance]], which hosts user-submitted videos ranging in duration from 15 seconds to 10 minutes. In 2021, TikTok had over a billion users, including 70 million in the [[United States of America|United States]].<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=[[Alan Macleod]]|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=The NATO to TikTok Pipeline: Why Is TikTok Employing So Many National Security Agents?|date=2022-04-29|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826100307/https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336/|archive-date=2022-08-26|retrieved=2022-08-31}}</ref>

Despite being owned by a Chinese company, TikTok is not available in China, where a similar app called [[Douyin]] is used instead. TikTok and Douyin have almost the same user interface but no access to each other's content. Their servers are each based in the market where the respective app is available.

== Controversies ==

=== Attempted ban in the United States ===
The [[Government of the United States of America|US government]] has made repeated attempts to censor or ban TikTok, claiming that the platform constitutes a "threat" to national security. However, it has been unable to provide any evidence of the alleged "espionnage" by TikTok, while international media outlets have noted that the United States itself has a documented history of engaging in espionnage and mass surveillance.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[Al Jazeera]]|title=US says China can spy with TikTok. It spies on world with Google|date=2023-03-28|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/3/28/bid-to-ban-tiktok-raises-hypocrisy-charge-amid-global-spying|retrieved=2026-04-26|quote=[United States lawmakers] did not mention how the US government itself uses US tech companies that effectively control the global internet to spy on everyone else... There have been some indications that US officials see China, not TikTok itself, as the ultimate concern... In 2021, the most recent year for which data is available, the US targeted 232,432 “non-US persons” for surveillance, according to government data.}}</ref> Extensive lobbying efforts by US billionaires and corporations against TikTok revealed that the true objectives of the US government involve ambitions of political and economic hegemony.<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[Ben Norton]]|newspaper=[[Geopolitical Economy Report]]|title=US TikTok ban aims to weaken China & protect Big Tech monopolies|date=2024-03-18|url=https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/03/18/us-tiktok-ban-china-tech-monopolies/|retrieved=2026-04-20|quote=This is part of a technological war that Washington is waging against Beijing. The US is essentially trying to block competition from Chinese tech companies, to protect Big Tech monopolies in Silicon Valley... For its part, Meta (which has tens of billions of dollars of contracts with multiple US government agencies) has spent years lobbying against TikTok.}}</ref>

In 2020, the US government tried to make Walmart or [[Microsoft Corporation|Microsoft]] buy TikTok, forcing the company to organize "Project Texas" and fill its ranks with officials from the [[Imperialism|imperialist]] [[United States Intelligence Community|secret police]]. The buyout deal was cancelled as a result.<ref name=":1" />

The state of [[Montana]] in the US attempted to institute a statewide ban on the usage of the application with the initial ban being planned to take effect on January 1, 2023 but the ban was blocked by US District Judge Donald Molloy.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Ma Jiangjiang oh|newspaper=Global Times|title=US judge blocks Montana’s TikTok ban as Washington urged to stop crackdown and consolidate momentum of thawing bilateral ties|date=2023-12-01|url=https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202312/1302864.shtml|retrieved=2023-12-01}}</ref>

==== Impact ====
Many TikTok users in the United States protested against the attempted ban by migrating to [[RedNote]], a domestic Chinese platform, while expressing skepticism and ridicule at the US government's propaganda narratives.<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSkAbDbvVOY|channel=[[Carl Zha]]|title=American TikTok Refugees and Chinese compares Grocery/Medical Bills on RedNote|date=2025-01-17}}</ref><ref>{{Video citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdHW33QE15o|channel=[[BreakThrough News]]|title=‘Turning Chinese’: Gen Z Memes Undermine Anti-China Propaganda|date=2026-02-11}}</ref>

=== Censorship ===
Censorship on Tiktok has greatly increased since the addition of employees linked to the [[National Security Agency]]. As of 2022, TikTok has deleted at least 320,000 [[Russian Federation|Russian]] accounts and labelled 49 as "Russian state-controlled media." [[Bourgeois media|Western state-controlled media]] outlets do not have similar warning labels.<ref name=":0" />

=== Government connections ===
Victoria McCullough worked for the [[Department of Homeland Security]] and had connections to the [[President of the United States|White House]], now works in the trust and safety division of TikTok.<ref name=":0" /> Her colleague Kathryn Grant worked for the White House for three years and later for the [[United States National Security Council|National Security Council]] and [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]] before becoming TikTok's Trust and Safety Manager. TikTok crisis manager Jim Ammons spent 21 years as an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] unit chief.<ref name=":1" />

==== CIA ====
* Casey Getz, who worked for the CIA for 11 years and eventually became a branch chief, now works on data security for TikTok.<ref name=":1" />
* Threat analyst Beau Patteson worked for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] and as a military intelligence officer for the United States.<ref name=":0" /> He continues to work for the U.S. military while serving as TikTok's Trust and Safety Manager.<ref name=":1" />

==== NATO ====
* Feature Policy Manager Greg Andersen worked on psychological operations for NATO until 2019.
* Foard Copeland worked for NATO and the [[United States Department of Defense|U.S. Department of Defense]].
* [[Canada|Canadian]] Content Policy Lead Alexander Corbeil is also the vice president of the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|NATO]] Association of Canada.<ref name=":0" />

==== U.S. State Department ====
* Christian Cardona, who worked for the State Department in [[Republic of Poland|Poland]], [[Republic of Türkiye|Turkey]], and [[Sultanate of Oman|Oman]], served as TikTok's Product Policy Manager for Trust and Safety from 2021 to 2023.
* Brad Earman, TikTok's Global Lead of Criminal and Civil Investigations, worked as an [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] special agent for 21 years. He also worked as an anti-terrorism manager for the State Department.
* Mariola Janik previously worked for the [[Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs]], [[United States Department of State|State Department]], and Department of Homeland Security. In September 2022, she became TikTok's Trust and Safety Program Manager.
* Katrina Villacisneros, TikTok's Recruiting Coordinator, worked for the State Department's Office of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs and oversaw cyberattacks as part of the [[Army Cyber Command]].
* Ryan Walsh, Escalations Management Lead for Trust and Safety at TikTok, spread pro-NATO propaganda as a digital strategy advisor for the State Department.<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=TikTok: Chinese "Trojan Horse" Is Run by State Department Officials|date=2023-04-13|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-by-state-department-officials/284353/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230416052947/https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-by-state-department-officials/284353/|archive-date=2023-04-16|retrieved=2023-04-16}}</ref>

== Alternatives ==

* [https://douyin.com Douyin]

== References ==
[[Category:Social media]]

British Broadcasting Corporation

2026-04-20T03:52:56Z

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[[File:BBC logo.png|thumb|Logo]]
The '''British Broadcasting Corporation''' ('''BBC''') is a [[United Kingdom|British]] state media outlet.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/spl/hi/history/html/default.stm</ref> British intelligence agencies such as [[MI5]] investigate the majority of BBC staff to prevent [[Left-wing politics|leftists]] or [[Anti-imperialism|anti-imperialists]] from entering the BBC.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=The BBC-to-NATO Pipeline: How the British State Broadcaster Serves the Powerful|date=2022-10-06|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/bbc-nato-pipeline-british-state-broadcaster-serves-powerful/282156/|retrieved=2022-10-06}}</ref> Considering Britain's role in global [[capitalism]] and [[imperialism]], their public broadcast service tends to support imperial wars and demonize the anti-colonial struggles of the periphery.

The BBC tends to, according to conservative commentators, have a "[[Liberalism|liberal]]" and "center-left" bias,<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/10/bbc-review-liberal-bias</ref> much in the same way that [[Fox News Channel|Fox]] viewers would describe America's public broadcasting service, [[PBS]], even though its former head of political programming, Robbie Gibb, was a supporter of the [[Conservative and Unionist Party|Conservative Party]].<ref name=":0" /> However, when it comes to questions of imperial wars and [[anti-communism]], the "liberal media" in the Western world tends to closely align with their corresponding right-wing media outlets.

== Controversies ==

=== Disinformation ===
The BBC has a documented history of spreading pro-[[Western]] propaganda and disinformation.

In a 2021 video depicting the recovery of Wuhan from the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], the BBC deliberately edited footage from the city with a color filter, giving it a grayish and smog-like appearance. The use of the "underworld filter" resulted in widespread ridicule from citizens online.<ref name=":2">{{Web citation|author=Fan Anqi, Cui Fandi|newspaper=Global Times|title=BBC sparks uproar in China for 'underworld filter' on Wuhan video|date=2021-02-17|url=https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202102/1215710.shtml|retrieved=2026-04-12}}</ref>

In another piece from the same year, the BBC edited footage from foreign vloggers in China using the same "underworld filter" again. British vlogger Jason Lightfoot made a response video presenting his original footage and the edited version from the BBC side-by-side. Lightfoot mocked the BBC's lack of journalistic integrity, noting its involvement in spreading false claims about weapons of mass destruction prior to the [[2003 Invasion of Iraq]].<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1C54y1n7wR/?spm_id_from=333.1387.upload.video_card.click|channel=Mr有意思 (Jason Lightfoot)|title=英国博主：我再次登上英国主流媒体！这次是毫无底线的BBC新闻|date=2021-07-17}}</ref>

The dissemination of disinformation by the BBC, as well as the British government ban on [[CGTN]], contributed to [[People's Republic of China|China]]'s decision to ban the BBC.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{News citation|author=Maitreya Bhakal|newspaper=[[Mango Press]]|title=Why China Finally Banned the BBC, a Racist British Propaganda Outlet|date=2021-09-03|url=https://www.mango-press.com/why-china-finally-banned-the-bbc-a-racist-british-propaganda-outlet/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220604203011/https://www.mango-press.com/why-china-finally-banned-the-bbc-a-racist-british-propaganda-outlet/|archive-date=2022-06-04|retrieved=2022-06-27}}</ref>

=== NATO connections ===
BBC producer Victoria Cook was funded by [[NATO]] from 2007 to 2008. Former BBC correspondents Oana Lungescu and Mark Laity and producer David McGee left the BBC to work for NATO. BBC information security specialist Terence Sach was previously a security analyst for the British military. Technical consultant Bojan Lazic worked as a psychological operations specialist for NATO during the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)|Yugoslavia]].<ref name=":0" />

=== Right-wing Bias ===
In 2023, BBC refused to broadcast an episode of a nature documentary featuring Sir David Attenborough, fearing a "right-wing backlash" over "its themes of the destruction of nature”.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Helena Horton|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|title=BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of ‘rightwing backlash’|date=2023-03-11|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311120518/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears|archive-date=2023-03-11|retrieved=2023-03-11|quote=The BBC has decided not to broadcast an episode of Sir David Attenborough’s flagship new series on British wildlife because of fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the rightwing press, the Guardian has been told.}}</ref>

=== Transphobia ===
In October 2021, the BBC published an article titled "We're being pressured into sex by some trans women", which argues that lesbian women are being "pressured and coerced into accepting trans women as partners" and "shunned and even threatened for speaking out".<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=Caroline Lowbridge|newspaper=[[BBC]]|title="The lesbians who feel pressured to have sex and relationships with trans women"|date=2021-10-26|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-57853385|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026084108/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-57853385|archive-date=2021-10-26|retrieved=2023-12-02}}</ref> The article drew heavy criticism for its bad methodology and blatant [[transphobia]]. The BBC also gave a platform to [[Bev Jackson]] (a co-founder of the transphobic hate group the [[LGB Alliance]]) and [[Lily Cade]] (an actress, adult film director, and serial rapist) who, after the article's publication, called for the lynching of several high-profile trans women. Cade's contribution to the article has since been deleted, though the rest of the article is still up at the time of writing.<ref name=":1" />

== References ==
<references />
[[Category:State media]]
[[Category:Imperialist propaganda]]
[[Category:Bourgeois media]]