I’m neither a child nor defending tiktok but it doesn’t mater who manipulates it. No country," allied" or otherwise, should interfere in the democratic process of another country.
Comment on TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany
Fades@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The children will defend tiktok with their lives, crying about how it doesn’t matter non-allied foreign powers can manipulate the algos and narratives.
Deway@lemmy.world 1 month ago
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I don’t see this as a China problem. It’s regulations and oversight problem. Aligned powers push far right via social media onto Europe as well.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s both.
The companies who do this shit absolutely need to be regulated way more aggressively.
TikTok (ByteDance), being a Chinese company based in the PRC, is compelled to operate in partnership with the CCP by law, which gives the CCP an insane degree of visibility and control into their systems. I would be absolutely unsurprised to find that the CCP is compelling them to tweak their algorithms and push specific content to specific audiences, in addition to the data gathering they’re surely engaged in. Source: I work for an oncology biotech, and we halted our Chinese efforts because there was apparently no legal way to square the circle with regard to data privacy/HIPAA considerations.
freeman@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
He doesn’t see that specific allied power interfering with European politics because he is from the US.