TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Find. Another. Service.

  TikTok is dead — just like Twitter. I don’t understand people who cling to these services. Might as well post on MySpace while you’re at it.

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  • VeryVito@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What? MySpace never tried to topple a democracy.

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    • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Remember when MySpace was owned by Rupert Murdoch? Wikipedia remembers…

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace

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    • treesquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They didn’t have the opportunity. They absolutely wanted to,

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you are uninstalling, you can try the federated alternative: loops

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  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s probably either denial or sunk-cost fallacy

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    shortform content, is addictive to people.

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    • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And Tiktok isn’t the only place for that exact type of content.

      People are already jumping ship to other platforms.

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  • rayyy@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Try UpScrolled. It ranks higher than TicToc and claims to be politically neutral.

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    • Zoot@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or Loops? The federated, no special interests version of TikTok. You’re already on lemmy, why advocate for yet another corporate social media company?

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Saw “no censorship” in the description, and had suspicions. Got the app, and immediately scrolled past a “Jews secretly run the world” post followed shortly by a “Hitler was right about the Jews” post. Yeah, the problem with “no censorship” is that it inevitably falls prey to the Nazi bar problem.

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• AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wow, a bug that specifically automatically chose keywords like “ICE”, and “epstein”, then blocked them from appearing, while leaving literally all other content unharmed????? How conveniently specific and well-timed! /s

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  • jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Like someone else said, it might legitimately have been a bug: maybe they didn’t mean for the censorship to be visible to the person using those keywords, and it’d just be everyone else who can’t see them. That way you’d think everything is fine but mysteriously your Epstein / ICE content just doesn’t get any views

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    • Tuscy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What a big oopsies, y’all found out about our behind the scenes Zionist propaganda. You weren’t suppose to see that. Pretend you ever say anything.

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• Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe—and I’m going out on a limb here—just maybe, using centralized media to document State-sponsored domestic terrorism is a fucking stupid idea. Especially since the very same platform is co-owned by the State.

  Y’all, we already went through this with Xitter. Sorry you fell for it again, but this won’t be the last time if you continue to cling to platforms owned by the very people who want to censor you.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We’re not the ones who need to hear it, though.

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    • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re not, but as counterintuitive as it may seem, there are people who use the Fediverse and big platforms like TikTok, Xitter, etc. My words are for them.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    especially one that reaches a wider range of young gen z people who had not been captured by other alt-right social media yet.

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• ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is TikTok in America as managed by Larry Ellison and the US government btw. They Iron Curtained y’all.

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  • D_C@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Balderdash! That type of stuff only happens in dictatorships.
    Next you’ll be telling me there’s a bunch of masked Gestapo goons running around shooting innocent people and kidnapping non whites…

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    • rayyy@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That type of stuff only happens in shit-hole countries - FTFY.

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    • jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      masked Gestapo goons

      Honestly they’re more like the SA

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  • BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nothing to do with the fact that Larry Ellison is a jew and the largest individual contributor to Israel, right?

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    • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Everything to do with it because TikTok is bad for Western imperialist optics and radicalised the youth as the genocide was getting livestreamed. 🤷

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• Chozo@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Weird timing these bugs seem to have, eh?

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• 4grams@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why doesn’t anyone see this for what it is. They put monitoring for certain keywords but fucked up the code and it blocked some users through incompetence. They fixed the filters, but I guarantee they are sending reports to the White House…

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Okay good so they’re going to fix it then?

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  • Tuscy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Oopsies, come back guys!”

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• Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hey, now I am not able to watch videos about my favorite fast train from Germany, the InterCityExpress, ICE. /s

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  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Always remember: If you flip the Deutsche Bahn logo, the customer is depicted.
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    • jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also:

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  • Riverside@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Fast” train, going 150km/h half the trip duration lmfao

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Translation: “We got caught”

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• me_myself_and_I@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ironic that an app monitored and controlled by the Chinese communist party allowed more freedom of speech for Americans. How the turn tables.

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• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How convenient.

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• Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Every time. Facebook said the same thing when things that upset the powers got hidden or deleted.

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• neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lol, that’s not how it fucking works.

  Key words like that don’t just accidentally get filtered out with a “bug”.

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  • ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We were developing a feature to push for those posts, but a bug made it so that they were blocked.

    I guess this is one of the few cases in which that could be the result of a bug.

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    • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not a chance. Not even remotely possible if they have automated testing (which they do) and qa staff verifying features (which they also do), and smoke/regression tests after deployment (which they do).

      I’ve worked in this industry for 30 years, and the chance that that’s what happened, immediately after a takeover by people who really don’t want those terms searched on, and the feature was released in that state, and stayed in that state without a hotfix or patch going out and it wasn’t caught by their own testers, is practically nil.

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hopefully the Streisand effect takes place and people wake up to the fact that Israel was blackmailing our politicians with trafficked children and bribes. History will call these people traitors www.trackaipac.com

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  it was one of the last platform that allows significant criticism against ISrael without being censored, thats why.

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  • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah, but that’s the thing. There are always new platforms.

    The current winner seems to be a new one called Upscrolled.

    The guy behind it is a Palestinian out of Jordan, with Australian citizenship?

    Anyway, that’s all I currently know about it, the app is being hugged to death by tens of thousands of new users over the last day or two.

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    • Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not Open Source…

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      It is considerably more open and build on open source technologies and they do want to become decentralized “once the open protocols mature (?)” but still, can someone educate the kids on software freedom please.

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  • Riverside@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s when it was under Chinese ownership, remember they had to sell the US Tiktok to a Yankee company

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• DrDickHandler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Once again, they are using this mainly to censor anti-Israel content. No one is mentionning this in the articles and comments.

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  • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s because our government is literally occupied by this genocidal state that was blackmailing our politicians with trafficked children. History will call these people traitors www.trackaipac.com

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• FukOui@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Might not be a lie. They might be silently rolling a feature to selectively censor/ show ICE fascists and accidentally censored all by mistake lol

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• pimpampoom@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not expert and I call BS. No need to be an expert for this hahaha

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• WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So people are upset that they can’t get the info or propaganda they want on tick tock…

  Which tells me that these people think that tick tock is a reputable place to get this kind of information

  I have heard more about this tick tock bullshit than I have heard about the ice bullshit today and that should say a lot about nature of our society here in America.

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it was the only place to get actual unspun news about the genocide in gaza, obviously the chinese have their own censorship but if your in the west your trying to escape western propaganda not chinese propaganda

    same reason why chinese kids flock to discord/other services. though from what i hear chinese doesn’t really care so much if you know/speak about X internal-propaganda subject, just long as you don’t “agitate” or try to orginize against it.

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• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not “bugs”…“features.”

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• Tuscy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sure. “Bug”. It’s just a way of them begging people to come back to their Zionist spyware bullshit.

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hope tick toc loses so many users it goes bankrupt

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• myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  By bugs they mean bending over backwards to please daddy.

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• dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You mean “experts” who have even the slightest understanding of how software works?

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• not_that_guy05@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A bug right. Just EA is blocking/censoring the name as well.

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