TikTok于周一宣布已清理俄罗斯国家媒体RT及Sputnik关联账号，称其涉及“隐蔽影响力行动”。这家短视频社交应用在官网声明中指出，他们针对与TV-Novosti和Rossiya Segodnya——RT电视台网络及其隶属的俄罗斯新闻机构Sputnik的上级组织进行了处理。TikTok表示这些账户违反了社区准则，尤其是关于欺诈行为的规定。
一名TikTok发言人通过邮件向NBC News透露，关联账号已被永久禁止使用。RT与Sputnik均在周末时发布声明称，部分账户未说明原因即被删除。
RT及Sputnik均于X平台发表声明，称“抖音用户和8.6万名订阅者现在无法了解关于国际地缘政治的真相或观看西方政客失误的斯普特尼克国际视频”。与此同时，美国国务卿安东尼·布林肯表示相信包括RT在内的俄罗斯媒体已从单纯运作媒体转向隐蔽情报操作。
近日，联邦检察官指控两名RT雇员领导一个价值1000万美元的项目以推广亲俄论点，并伪装资金来源。RT总编玛尔加丽塔·西蒙尼扬称其为“正常的新闻组织”，并誓言将继续在美工作，“他们试图封锁我们的进入，我们会通过窗户，关上窗后再通过通风口，我们就会找到美国机构中的漏洞”。
TikTok还单独指出，在8月份已经移除了五个隐蔽影响力操作。其中有一个网络涵盖了八个账号，拥有380万粉丝，并针对俄罗斯话题展开影响活动。另外两个受影响的网络则将焦点放在了墨西哥的政治讨论上。
整体而言，这反映了TikTok对维持平台内容真实性和避免外国势力干涉的坚决立场。
新闻来源：www.nbcnews.com
原文地址：TikTok removes Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik, citing ‘covert influence operations’
新闻日期：2024-09-23
原文摘要：
TikTok said Monday it had removed accounts belonging to Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik for engaging in what TikTok called “covert influence operations.” The social video app said in a statement on its website that it removed accounts associated with TV-Novosti and Rossiya Segodnya, the parent organizations of the RT television network and the Russian news agency Sputnik. TikTok said the accounts had violated its community guidelines, in particular its ban on deceptive behavior. The associated accounts are now permanently banned, a TikTok spokesperson said in an email to NBC News. The suspensions follow the Biden administration’s accusations this month that RT acts as an arm of Moscow’s spy agencies. Social media rivals Meta and YouTube have announced similar suspensions of Russian state media accounts, although other tech companies such as X have left up RT and Sputnik accounts. TikTok said that, even before Monday, it had restricted the visibility of the accounts in the E.U. and U.K., and that it had already ruled their content ineligible for TikTok’s “For You” feed because they were state-affiliated media. Representatives for RT and Sputnik did not immediately respond to requests for comment. RT and Sputnik both published reports over the weekend saying that some of their accounts had been deleted without explanation. “TikTok users and our 86,000 subscribers are no longer allowed to know the truth about most urgent geopolitical issues and laugh at Western politicians’ gaffes in Sputnik International videos,” Sputnik said in a post on X on Saturday. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said this month that he believed Russian outlets such as RT had moved beyond working as media outlets and had turned into covert intelligence operations. Federal prosecutors recently charged two RT employees with running a $10 million project to boost Russia-aligned talking points while disguising the source of the money. RT’s Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has called the outlet a “normal journalist organization” and vowed to continue its work in the U.S. “They close entry to us, and we will go through the window, close the window and we will go through the vents and we will see what holes there are in the organism of the United States of America,” she said on RT this month, according to Reuters. TikTok said separately Monday that it removed five covert influence operations in August. One of the networks had 3.8 million followers across eight accounts and targeted discourse about Russia, according to TikTok. Two of the five networks targeted political discourse in Mexico, the app said.
