TikTok to assist Kyrgyzstan to prevent political campaigning on platform

Bishkek, Sept. 30, 2021. / Kabar /. The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Kyrgyzstan and TikTok will cooperate to prevent political campaigning on the platform. Such an agreement was reached during a meeting of Chairwoman of Kyrgyzstan’s CEC Nurzhan Shaildabekova and Alexander Strakh, the TikTok Regional Director for cooperation with CIS state authorities, the press service of CEC reported. The representative of TikTok informed the head of the Central Election Commission of Kyrgyzstan that according to the latest published data, the global monthly audience of TikTok has reached 1 billion users. Alexander Strakh emphasized that TikTok is a platform for posting mainly entertainment and educational content, paid political advertising on it is strictly forbidden. Meanwhile, he added that TikTok has developed the Global Election Cooperation Standard, which has been successfully tested in elections in the United States, Germany, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Russia and other countries. The head of the Kyrgyz CEC informed the interlocutor about the peculiarities of the parliamentary elections scheduled for Nov. 28 this year. In particular, Shaildabekova noted that a total of thousands of candidates are expected to participate, who will actively compete with each other in the information space, including in social networks. Nurzhan Shaildabekova noted the Commission welcomes the efforts of the TikTok platform to promote fair elections and prevent the use of the platform for unfair political competition or other destructive purposes.