Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives

gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t say nothing happened. Young people migrated off of it and it’s now the lead gasoline of the social media world

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  • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah but young people didn’t migrate off it because it was harmful

    They migrated in part to instagram which Facebook bought and made even more harmful than Facebook itself

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    • FilipDaFlippa@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah ig is the worst part of Facebook, just people curating what they want people to think their life looks like

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      • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is in stark contrast to…?

        Facebook???

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  back then it wasn’t about political independence from the US.

  the EU has made a lot of noise in the last 2 weeks about getting off of US platforms. Here’s a few examples:

  apnews.com/…/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-…

  ecfr.eu/…/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-esca…

  There’s many more. The movement is significant.

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