The above reply could still be true. If you run this sort of hashtag analysis on other countries you could probably find a bunch that the platform is "favoring" .
Hell you could uno reverse this whole argument and say meta is boosting western aligned content. Claiming Instagram is some sort of unbiased real base for social media is a bad premise.
"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."
Or in this case, if it looks like it's owned by CCP, takes orders from the CCP, and promotes the views of the CCP, it's probably a CCP intelligence operation.