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Trump Makes It Clear They Will Turn TikTok into a Right Wing Propaganda Machine
- Argonaut998 1y agoA Zionist one*
- throw-the-towel 1y ago¿Por qué no los dos?
- arresin 1y agoEllison's stake and Bibi’s recent commentary. They’ve basically told the world what it’ll be used for. You need to reach a really broad audience to sell genocide.
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- cwmoore 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chin...
- CommanderData 1y agoMeta, speaking about censoring anti-zionist content: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2209316259518773&vanity=MiddleEastEye https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2209316259518773&vanity=Mi... https://www.facebook.com/reel/66556493302222 https://www.facebook.com/reel/66556493302222 Like you said, Benjamin Netanyahu saying more or less at the same conference https://youtu.be/lPueSBhoryc https://youtu.be/lPueSBhoryc
- _menelaus 1y agoNot rightwing. Israeli. Larry Ellison is the biggest donor to the IDF. Tiktok was banned in the US when the youth started to turn against Israel. This has everything to do with propping up Israel's cratering reputation with the youth.
- rchaud 1y agoThe vote to ban Tiktok (for spurious "Chinese data theft" reasons) was pretty much the only bill to have bipartisan support in the last decade. Goes to show how deeply the lobbying influence is in US politics.
- cwmoore 1y agoHave you read TikTok's ToS? The claims are not spurious. The amount of data collected for each user is extraordinary. It is enlightening that we are still even talking about it.
- dttze 1y ago[dead]
- rchaud 1y agoThe TT "ban" went into effect in January, and wasn't enforced. Their data practices don't seem all that dangerous if they've been able to continue them unemcumbered for more than a year after the bill went to a vote.
- derelicta 1y agoThe great western data collection business VS the ebil chinese spying machine
- thatguy0900 1y agoI mean the reality is that going forward it simply won't be permissable to let foreign governments freely influence your youth with whatever content algorithm they please. It's even open knowledge that China itself doesn't allow TikTok to influence their own children like they allow it to influence American ones. As influencing physchology and personal Ai algorithms get more advanced you simply can't let it be controlled by foreign, hostile powers. This was inevitable, lobbying aside, as long as TikTok has suge huge market share especially with children.
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- techblueberry 1y agoHow much does domination of the media help vs hurt. In the one hand, it does feel like the culture moved left under liberals over the past 10 years, and part of that seems top down, the expansion of cultural studies in universities to everyone talking about privilege in 2024. But or course, in the end it may have created more backlash then support for the movement. It moved some people more extreme but did it broaden the tent? But right now the right has a pipeline of young men entering their political stream. Does that continue if all mainstream culture appears right wing?
- thatguy0900 1y agoThe right can also push religion as a cultural anchor, where the left really doesn't. Religion seems to be very culturally stabilizing if the right can get a Christian resurgence going in the us
- Argonaut998 1y agoThe religion of course being Baptist Evangelical Dispensationalist Christianity
- thatguy0900 1y agoBeggers can't be choosers, he has to find one that is both Christian enough to appeal to red Blooded Americans yet will also ignore all the extremely unchristian things he himself does and says
- techblueberry 1y agoMaybe? But Americans by and large don’t like being told what to do. I think part of the movement against like rural broadband and to control social media is to try and control the narrative for the people outside of citied that they think can, sort of exactly what you’re talking about. But again, Americans are pretty rebellious by nature. Look at the increase in anti-vax sentiment, we like to disagree with institutions, I don’t know that controlling institutions, even religion makes them appealing to disillusioned young men, like arguably the biggest strategic misstep liberals made was thinking they could control the narrative. The interesting (scary?) one is what Pete Hegseth is doing with the military. Giving people a shared enemy? That could work.