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I agree in principle - but why is TikTok different - why then not, for example, Instagram as well? Is the content on IG any better? Does Meta for some reason ha

• CPLX 3y ago
  Those should be broken up for different long-standing and obvious reasons, namely that they’re clearly prohibited by existing antitrust statute. That however is a different issue to foreign state controlled media.
• numpad0 3y ago
  The only problem with social media algorithms to anyone is that that anyone is in its line of sight through the operating end of it. It’s generally inadvisable, uncomfortable and principally incorrect to stand downrange of such devices, that’s all.
• jasmer 3y ago
  It's geopolitical, and the 'content' stuff is just populism. Insta is hosted in the US controlled by Western firms, not privy to the CCP and that's it.