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TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale
Submitted 1 day ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 1 day ago
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
its not a tiktok sale and i dont understand why media keeps repeating this. they’re licensing the algorithm to a new spun off us company silo’ed from the rest of the world.
also tiktok has been garbage slop forever anyway.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
And CCP Military based in Beijing will still be maintaining it, they’re only moving it to a Cloud Server.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
it’s almost like every person in tech is clairvoyant…
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I thought the nazi propaganda on the internet was annoying 20 years ago when I occasionally bumped into it. Now I’ll have to carefully curate the internet to not have to hear it constantly. Jfc.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Have you tried accommodation, no consequences and tolerance? Works every time toward fascists.
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’ve personally got a lot on my plate. In trying to survive. There was a time I was more active, but its a young man’s/woman’s game.
HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 1 day ago
Might? It was pretty clear that the goal of buying it was to turn it in a rightwing propaganda machine
dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io 1 day ago
And the catalyst was clearly the nonstop exposure of Israel slaughtering innocents.
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
They explicitly said that the goal of buying it was to turn it into a rightwing propaganda machine
ohlaph@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The optimism of using the word might is doing some heavy lifting here.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
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It was always Right Wing, it was controlled by CCP Military.
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It’s still controlled by the CCP Military, they’re just migrating to a cloud server that Beijing still has full access to.
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atmorous@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Soooo any open source tiktok alternatives anyone can recommend?
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Glad I deleted Tik Tok and all it’s bullshit
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Glad I never had tiktok and all it’s bullshit.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I mean it already is the biggest superspreader of far right content in Europe and I would assume in the US as well. But please don‘t come with anecdotes about your TikTok experience because it‘s the most personalized content platform so it‘s irrelevant what your feed looks like right now. I‘m saying this because often times at least one TikTok user will rush in to defend the platform with their personal experience whenever this is brought up.
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
The political part of my feed is pretty much hard left wing - but when I open the comments the top responders are the most right wing PoS’s I’ve ever seen. Which is so stupid because they’ll have max 200 thumbs up while a rational left wing respons will ratio them out of the water
Grimy@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It’s used to divide but I think it leans the opposite way in north America. The GOP wouldn’t have such a hate boner for it if it was pushing the same bullshit they are.
Hard to remember but I think a lot of pro Palestinian vids were on tiktok while the other social media sites were suppressing it when it all started. I only heard of this, I don’t have an account.
It’s leaning in Europe is well known though.
egerlach@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
If China is okay with the sale that means it’s not good for the US. Danger, Will Robinson, danger!
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Because the Mainlander government see it as a useful tool for which to make the US collapse.
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
It’s great for controlling the minds if millions.
sommerset@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
I don’t care about tiktok. Just don’t use ut
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah but if you live in a democracy those people with their rotten brains will have as much decision power as you do. 😔
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 13 hours ago
If the US becomes a democracy again, we might really have to worry about that! /s
SouthFresh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“The calls are coming from inside the house!”
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
This was the plan all along. It became enormously influential, so Trump is forcing China to sell it to MAGA and become ANOTHER mouthpiece for the Conservative Propaganda Machine. They did it to Twitter, they did it to Reddit, and now they’re going to do it to TikTok.