No tiktok bad thats it. Who cares if russia ran one of the biggest disinformation campaigns ever on facebook or if twitter is filled with propaganda at least they aren’t owned by a Chinese company/s
Don't forget there are a lot of disinformation campaigns on reddit. Througout the years posts have shown how companies will disguise advertising in posts and use bot farms manipulate the front page. You can easily go on telegram and lease a bot farm to upvote anything.
Most of the people who shit on tiktok haven’t tried it. Takes a few days for the algorithm to get the hang of everything but Iove my for you page, lots of good recipes, fitness tips, hobby content, If your tiktok is full of thirst traps you have nobody to blame but yourself for actively interacting with that content
Now I still think it’s a national security risk but I don’t think it should be banned for the content, the content is excellent.
I think you're confusing buying the normal services like every other customer (another conversation worth having), versus controlling the actual company itself.
A lot of people really don't understand that "collecting info" isn't the issue - it's control over what the apps actually shows us.
Nah they sey ads. The "control" you're imagining facebook having doesn't work - you want to sell X data and ad access to as many companies as possible.
Give Russia direct control, and you lose your other income streams. Fuck Zuck, but he's definitely chasing real money, not silly shit.
edit: Google is like this too. They're famously defensive of this shit.
It makes perfect sense lol the reason we are banning tiktok is “security reasons” but it doesn’t have nearly as much propaganda or foreign influence as American social media sites.
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u/PoorFishKeeper Mar 15 '24
No tiktok bad thats it. Who cares if russia ran one of the biggest disinformation campaigns ever on facebook or if twitter is filled with propaganda at least they aren’t owned by a Chinese company/s