How does this work for countries outside of the US? Will Canadian and European TikTok get the propaganda too or will the US version be self contained?
TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill
Submitted 7 months ago by vegeta@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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NotSteve_@piefed.ca 7 months ago
colforge@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I read that US users will have to download a whole new app so I’m guessing anyone outside the US that keeps the current one won’t be affected.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So like the tiktok China has. It’s like we are running full speed trying to become NK
gdog05@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Isn’t it already a propaganda mill?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Betteridge you bastard how dare you fail me like this
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Well you had to ask, right? Not anymore.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Touché
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Young people decide what’s popular, if you fuck it up they will bail for another platform. Hopefully someone spins up a competitor quickly to grab the people in between the forced “new app”
tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
“you sweet, summer child”
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
kibiz0r@midwest.social 7 months ago
if you fuck it up they will bail for another platform
They might also start using another platform. But they’re unlikely to leave completely.
Cory Doctorow put out the first hour of the audiobook on Enshittification for free, and it covers this very well.
fluxion@lemmy.world 7 months ago
True for us 1%ers, nobody else seems to give a fuck.
spongebue@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You have to use words like “unalive” and it’s still popular?
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
You’re underestimating the propaganda machine . All those right-wing influencers didn’t get to the top of every chart because young people decided them to be popular.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Susan Wojiciki genuinely spearheaded the rise of the far right on social media by giving endless support and exposure to the likes of the Paul brothers, Mr.Beast, and right wing commentators who regularly broke ToS but rarely if ever got banned or demonitized for it.
She truly was the Ronald Reagan of social media personalities. May she burn in Hell.
_spiffy@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Wouldn’t it be cool if people used loops instead!
akilou@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Dude Facebook hasn’t been cool in a decade and it’s still very much a thing
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’d be genuinely curious what the real age demographic of regular Facebook users is in America, but I highly doubt Meta would ever release those figures.
Doubt they can even sort out who is and isn’t a not, themselves
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
I just had this funny thought— so boomers adopted and settled into Facebook after millennials made it popular. And then everyone except for boomers stopped actively using it. It’s kind of their “retirement social media platform.”
Now you have TikTok, which the millennials flocked to after GenZ popularized it. Does this mean after Gen Z flees the platform that it’s just going to be the Facebook equivalent for millennials?Zephorah@discuss.online 7 months ago
It’s alive due to Messenger and Marketplace.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
wait until the boomer generation stops using it…
henfredemars@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Is it not already a propaganda mill by convention? I assumed that was part of the deal to continue operating.
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’m pretty active on there and my entire feed is academic and thoughtful left-leaning commentary. Granted I had to work at curating it. Day one was all thirst traps. But now I really enjoy it. I will actually be sad when it becomes unusable.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 months ago
It wasn’t always purely right wing propaganda, they want it full right wint propaganda,
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Yeah I thought this deal happened months ago. I guess now they’re being public about it.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Before it was a vague sinophobic conspiracy theory pushed by big tech and other fascists… now it’s a reality.
yucandu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The only time I ever hear the term “sinophobic”, it’s someone using it to hand-wave away criticisms of the Chinese government.
Sort of like “anti-semitic” and criticisms of Israel.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Yeah but… not the right propaganda!
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 7 months ago
right propaganda
Well…
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
…More explicitly than after the first ban
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
It’s like people forgot about that.
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
TikTok US to be rebranded as LikKok
FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Comes in flavours, likkok orange, and likkok red.
billwashere@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Damn you … I shot coffee out my nose with that. 😂
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Burn baby burn!