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- monNom1
I think this just highlights how much power social media companies actually have. The US exports their social media platforms and gets /something/ back in return. Is it narrative control? real-time sentiment polling? emerging threat detection? Who knows, but it is something. And that something is important enough to consider a foreign platform as a national security threat.
I suspect that the ability to shape what people see, the information they come in contact with via suggestion algorithms, and censorship, might be way more powerful than we give it credit for.
It also occurs to me that strategic commenting (AI sock puppets?) might allow you to shift the narrative. IE. Say you've got an influencer that talks to a million people, and they get pushback from their tribe for talking one way about Xinjiang, then maybe they change their tune because they think they've got it wrong if so many of their fans are so angry about what they said, and now all those million people are getting the self-censored/adjusted opinion from this important communication node, and it's essentially the chinese propaganda, spread domestically.
I dunno if that's how it all works, but the Banning/forced sale of Tiktok certainly makes me suspect these platforms are much less benign than we think they are.
- ApeRobot-1
Internet garbage
- NBQ001
Fucking idiots
- sted0
TikTok Parent Says Clueless About $5B Fund That Trump Claims Will Help Teach 'Real' US History
Shivdeep Dhaliwal , Benzinga Staff WriterSeptember 20, 2020 11:16pm 1 min read Comments
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TikTok Parent Says Clueless About $5B Fund That Trump Claims Will Help Teach 'Real' US HistoryPresident Donald Trump suggested Saturday that the TikTok deal he gave his "blessing" to involved a $5 billion education fund for the United States, but ByteDance claims it didn't hear of this until media reports emerged.
What Happened: “They are going to pay $5bn into a fund for education so we can educate people as to the real history of our country. We are getting very close to that deal,” the president had told his supporters on Saturday in North Carolina, the Financial Times reported.
ByteDance, in a Chinese social media post on Sunday, said it was the first time it was hearing of such a fund, according to Reuters.
- yeah he's delusional, compulsive liar, at this point he could promise the moon and the sky actuallygrafician
- crazyprick0
Ban that commie shit!
- ETM0
Vine 2.0
- microkorg0
Also making folk pop stars too.
- fyoucher10
My daughter and her friends have been on it non-stop for months. Guess it's more like Instagram with an actual live chat (guess IG has that too but don't think folks really use it). I could be making that up.
- Maaku0
Great, another product nobody asked for.
- uan0
first chinese internet technology that spreads to the west at big scale.
it got big in china partnering and promoting the music industry.
- utopian0
I'm guessing that the stable genius forgot about his stupid threat to shut TikTok down already...because they are kneeling again at basketball and baseball games.
- prophetone0
#glizzypocalypse
- NBQ000
Apparently today Trump will ban TikTok: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/…
Yay
- shapesalad-3
Triller will take over from Tiktok
- & Myspace will takeover Facebookmoldero
- then text-only BBS's will takeover Myspace and the loop starts over againprophetone
- utopian-1
- nb-1
Great site
- deathboy-3
phones and social media the worst thing to happen to the world. Only feeds and promotes growth on shallowness and narcissistic traits. And completely alters perception of reality. It disconnects any real connections but helps create a small army of the worst types of people in society