Ms Hartley said she had found it impossible to make direct contact with someone from the platform to get help. "It suggests autocracy is in their blood, it's in their water or it's in their culture," she says. Despite having been forced out, you also learn a lot about the occupiers just by looking around. irannews.ru/ - irannews.ru People using TikTok are served content based on a mixture of videos they have previously liked, and on which people like them have watched and commented. How the algorithm works "I thought, 'what have I done? I've made a film that's helping rape culture'." "It's amazing how China continues these lockdowns for so long - they are incredibly wrenching," says Professor Dali Yang at Chicago University who has been studying the zero-Covid policy Xi has personally endorsed. Channelling the Great Helmsman