• Pasta Dental
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    764 months ago

    Chinese company bytedance tries to fragilise western democracies episode 1937392

    • @[email protected]
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      194 months ago

      American company meta tries to fragilise western democracies and personal freedoms episode 1937392

      • @mriormro
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        54 months ago

        You know two things can be true, right?

        • @[email protected]
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          14 months ago

          Of course and they are. My point is people hate in tiktok all the time because it’s Chinese and because they harvest data while ignoring the fact Facebook/Instagram snapchat etc are all doing the same stuff and they don’t get met with a ban.

          • @mriormro
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            24 months ago

            Because one is domestic and one is not. It’s pretty simple to understand. Geopolitics is still a thing.

          • @[email protected]
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            14 months ago

            They should, and the EU should logically ban both if they’re unwilling to moderate the hate-speech and lies that infest their platforms.

            • @[email protected]
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              14 months ago

              Exactly I completely agree. But it’s an obvious move to fill the pockets of politicians because they own stocks in Meta and meta has been lobbying against tiktok for years.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      It’s not China actively manipulating things. It’s the algorithm that was getting gamed by the right wing. It’s not like the Cambridge Analytica scandal where Facebook was working directly with companies that were trying to get Trump elected. It’s more like the pipeline on YouTube, where it’s just algorithms funneling people into what’s popular ends up being gamed by conservative people. In the US, Tik Tok was known for helping the “woke left”, so obviously it’s not the same big conspiracy controlling both.

      The thing is, it can also be used for good in that it can show people things like what’s happening in Palestine without being censored by the US, like other US controlled social media has been.