Taras Chmut: "I don't have TikTok, I don't like it, I don't recommend it, and I support Ukraine banning it"
The head of the "Return Alive" foundation, Taras Chmut, argued why he believes that TikTok is harming our country.
The head of the "Return Alive" foundation, Taras Chmut, argued why he believes that TikTok is harming our country.
“I don’t have TikTok, I don’t like it, I don’t recommend it, and I support Ukraine banning it,” Taras Chmut said at the European Youth Capital festival in Lviv on comedian Vasyl Baydak’s Tseiwo podcast.
According to Chmut, TikTok is a chaotic social network where “artificially untrue” Russian content is generated, which quickly spreads, turns into the truth and people believe it. “You can make a video there about anything: that the Earth is flat, that Ukraine attacked China, and in a month a large number of the population will believe it,” he says.
Taras Chmut added that he manages all social networks himself, reads comments every day and responds to them.
Among other social networks, he would also ban Telegram.
“As a country, we are very sensitive to the information field and have been losing Russia’s information war for many decades,” says Chmut, emphasizing that Russia focuses mostly on Europe,
The USA, Africa and Latin America. And we, in his words, "fall under the hammer."
However, he also adds that it is not possible to abandon TikTok or other social networks in Ukraine solely on the basis of conscience; it is necessary for the state itself to disappear.
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