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TikTok users flooded the Trump rally with fake ticket requests. https://nypost.com/2020/06/21/tiktok-campaigns-ensure-hundreds-of-unused-seats-at-trump-tulsa-r

TikTok users flooded the Trump rally with fake ticket requests. https://nypost.com/2020/06/21/tiktok-campaigns-ensure-hundreds-of-unused-seats-at-trump-tulsa-rally/ https://nypost.com/2020/06/21/tiktok-campaigns-ensure-hundre... The plausible deniability is easy. No one will ever find out if it was specially promoted. They could just throw up their hands and say that it all happened all by itself. The algorithm is a mystery and a trade secret! U.S Teens are making "I Love China" videos on TikTok. https://www.recruitmentnewsuk.co.uk/2020/05/28/why-us-teens-on-tiktok-are-making-i-love-china-videos/ https://www.recruitmentnewsuk.co.uk/2020/05/28/why-us-teens-... The algorithm could interfere to remove any pro-Trump or anti-China TikToks and noone would be the wiser. There is zero transparency. The Chinese government can lend these institutions billions forever and undercut rivals and overpay programmers if it buys them political influence. Speaking of a free market in ideas. 90% of the U.S media is owned by 5 companies. I think a good idea would be to reverse the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which allowed for massive TV and Radio consolidation. Local radio was actually good in the late 80s and early 90s and new music styles were discovered and promoted by disk jockeys on local stations. After 96, the conglomerates bought up all the radio stations and IMHO, popular music more or less froze in place with just the names of the bands rotating.

crazygringo 6y ago
And all sorts of nonsense happens on Facebook. But TikTok is almost infinitely less political than Facebook. The Trump rally thing was a prank that was widely publicized on the internet. And the "I love China" videos seem to be a joke too. You're going to find a little bit of everything on every platform. The idea that TikTok is somehow pushing Chinese ideology remains completely unfounded and baseless. It's pure imagination and conjecture. If it ever does, it will be obvious and action can be taken then. But until it does, banning something like TikTok is simply blatantly anticompetitive and stooping to China's types of censorship. Again, we're better than that.

crazygringo 6y ago

And all sorts of nonsense happens on Facebook. But TikTok is almost infinitely less political than Facebook. The Trump rally thing was a prank that was widely publicized on the internet. And the "I love China" videos seem to be a joke too. You're going to find a little bit of everything on every platform. The idea that TikTok is somehow pushing Chinese ideology remains completely unfounded and baseless. It's pure imagination and conjecture. If it ever does, it will be obvious and action can be taken then. But until it does, banning something like TikTok is simply blatantly anticompetitive and stooping to China's types of censorship. Again, we're better than that.