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>> it is. its quite remarkable, but if you look at what people inside russia are looking at right now in terms of the internet, they dont have access to twitter or facebook. their access to tiktok, which is hugely popular inside the country, is very limited to, as we said, pro-putin content. so, were very quickly getting to the point where russia is moving itself behind what people have called the digital iron curtain. similar to what china has with the great firewall. but theyre totally differe...

Talking about how all russians should unite behind the military and how areas like luhansk and dunetsk are part of russia so it seems like the kremlin on one hand was definitely trying to take advantage of tiktok because its so popular in the country, and at the same time, tiktoks decision to ban all global content meant that there was no counternarrative for those people who were looking for it. >> theres also a china element to all of this, which i find fascinating, considering, obviously, the...

Against vladimir putins fake news laws and attempts to control the narrative about the war in ukraine. however, minutes after the ban went into effect, russian tiktok users noticed instead that western content was no longer viewable while pro-kremlin, pro-war videos were actually still flooding their feeds. my next guest says this alarming you were the of events is playing right into putins hands, leaving russian citizens completely in the dark with a vastly different version of the internet tha...

95% of the content previously available to users is now inaccessible and pro-putin and pro-lukashenko accounts are actually still available as well. talk to me about this. >> yeah, thanks for having me on to talk about this, yasmin. as you said, when tiktok initially took this decision, it was seen the by many as kind of another step for silicon valley or the big tech companies to clamp down on disinformation. but it very quickly became clear that what was actually happening was that people insi...