Comment on Trump plans to announce a company called TikTok America, with a 50% stake for US investors and 19.9% for ByteDance, which would license the algorithm.

hopesdead@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• AngryRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because it’s been an incredibly successful propoganda vector for the youth vote.

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  • hopesdead@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Huh. Is that good or bad?

    I don’t pay attention to TikTok. I’m not on there.

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    • Brandonazz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Very obviously bad. You want educated voters, not propagandized ones.

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    • RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Bad, it’s why so many of them are magattes.

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• Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  tiktok is used by genz and alpha alot, it helps that they would be the next generation of a dying GOP voters which are primarily boomers, Xers, and some milleneals.

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I believe it is part of a strategy known as indoctrination

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