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> There's more than enough reports from outside the US that credibly allege TikTok is a critical factor in the radicalization and recruitment of the far-right a

> There's more than enough reports from outside the US that credibly allege TikTok is a critical factor in the radicalization and recruitment of the far-right and militant Islamism [1][2][3]. You can find literature to support that claim for Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter, not just Tiktok. The Making of a Youtube Radical was a big story back in 2019. Facebook won the election for Trump in 2016. Twitter is owned by a Nazi who routinely boost far-right conspiracy theories. The answer isn't banning Tiktok but passing strong privacy and data legislation that affects all social media platforms. Not just Tiktok. US social media companies have been pulling on the seams of society far before Tiktok arrived.

mschuster91 1y ago
At least we can tackle Meta, Google and Twitter with domestic courts (and the EU is already turning the screws). With Tiktok, we have about zero ways to influence them. Straight Chinese propaganda right in the brains of our children.
- overfeed 1y ago
  > With Tiktok, we have about zero ways to influence them. I could swear the US passed a law targeted at TikTok last year. The law was precisely targeted to prevent any collateral damage on any of the American social media companies that are guilty of most or all the bad behavior leveled against TikTok.
- mullingitover 1y ago
  > At least we can tackle Meta, Google and Twitter with domestic courts We don't, and we won't (and these platforms are just as easily manipulated as TikTok), but we can, and that's what matters.