• @TropicalDingdong
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    128 months ago

    I’m convinced that US lawmakers believe that the pro-gaza sentiment is coming from TikTok. The timing, the mechanism. They see themselves as no longer able to control the narrative and are blaming ‘non-US’ social media.

    • Buelldozer
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      278 months ago

      I’d like to point out that the US has been publicly going after TikTok since the Trump Administration so I’m unconvinced that the timing lines up.

      • @[email protected]
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        78 months ago

        I think it’s more so just about controlling narratives in general. Tiktok has a lot of real time tracking of politician corruption and trades. A lot of good useful info for political activism, etc.

        • Buelldozer
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          58 months ago

          So did Twitter and even in the Pre-Elon days the Federal Government didn’t go after it like this.

        • @[email protected]
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          8 months ago

          Now they can move to better platforms like mastodon, lemmy, peertube, pixelfed, which unlike tiktok, can be hosted outside the U.S. and don’t seek to suck every bit of data out of every user.

          Arguably better platforms to organize activism, especially in conjunction with secure messaging apps that are out of the U.S. control.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        And yet it finally got the momentum to succeed now, during all these Gaza protests and when the US-Israeli mainline narratives have been starting to break down for the first time.