You might however get different perspectives from those that lawmakers or other powerful people want people to mostly see. (True on TikTok and all other social media. I consider it one of the greatest achievements of the Internet that it makes it a lot harder for the powerful to maintain an “overton window” and I consider it one of the most important societal causes to make sure they can’t undo that achievement.)

Earlier today I shared this story https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/tiktok-ban-fueled-by-israel-not-china which may or may not have been an inspiration for the story in the OP, but is definitely an example.