Comment on House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months agoFun fact: these days, Tiktok is the main social media outlet for uncensored pro-Palestine activism, owing to the fact that Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube tend to censor most criticism of the Israeli apartheid government.
THAT’S why they’re suddenly pretending that its spying on users is any worse than that of the others (it’s not) now of all times: AIPAC and other major donors are feeling the heat and want to shut people up.
That and because it’s an election year and the combination of xenophobia and pretending to care about online privacy appeals to a wide selection of gullible prospective voters.
DdCno1@kbin.social 7 months ago
It's not for "uncensored pro-Palestine activism", it's a primary vector for distributing blatant propaganda and misinformation. China is one of the big three who are aggressively pushing a pro-Hamas narrative on social media:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/israel-hamas-information-war.html
In case of paywall:
https://web.archive.org/web/20231103162338/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/israel-hamas-information-war.html
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
the NYT is a pro-Israel newspaper. See their recently leaked guidelines on covering Israel.
mondoweiss.net/…/a-secret-internal-nytimes-memo-r….
DdCno1@kbin.social 7 months ago
They can be pro or against Israel, but this article, which you likely didn't even read, is entirely factual.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Their news is biased, I do not trust the NYT as you seem to blindly do.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And Facebook and Twitter aren’t? 🙄
And nope, not taking the NYT’s word on anything related to the ongoing genocide in Gaza before they retract their thoroughly baseless “Screams without voices” propaganda piece.