it's interesting you bring that up as it turns out the incumbent party was actually the one behind that tiktok campaign, not russia. the campaign they used as evidence of "russian interference" that they cancelled the election because of
It's irrelevant to my point who did what. The elections were still influenced (though it saddens me that people are so easily influenced, but that's orthogonal too).
Is the content on the TV generated for you by some black box algorithm? Is it hard to determine who finances the political ads you see on TV? No and no, so no.
and how is a black box algorithm any worse than a system where only large corporate gatekeepers control what you see? if anything, i'd argue tiktok is more fair and democratic.