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and TikTok?

• mandmandam 3y ago
  Well, yeah, kinda. More than kinda even. Facebook already stole a lot of TikTok's essence [0]; quite successfully too. And, TikTok is being targeted by Congress, rather clearly because young people are learning too much about Israel's ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing on there [1]. If you consider that Facebook is basically a spy machine for US intelligence [2] and has been for a long time, this can be seen as the US eliminating/buying the competition for them by the power of government seizure. 0 - https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2021/09/29/facebook-reels-instagram-creators-influencers-tiktok/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2021/09/29/facebook-... 1 - https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/03/14/tiktok-us-israel/ https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/03/14/ti... 2 - https://www.csoonline.com/article/546958/microsoft-subnet-julian-assange-facebook-is-a-spy-machine-for-us-intelligence.html https://www.csoonline.com/article/546958/microsoft-subnet-ju...
• swiftcoder 3y ago
  I mean, they pivoted all of their major social network platforms to clone tiktok's core feature set pretty much as soon as TikTok started gaining traction. I think it's likely they are betting on the US government not tolerating a foreign-owned social network in the long term.