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- grafician1
"Exclusive: Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal"
- autoflavour2
pffft, you guys are haters .. its hilarious..
- 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.
- nb-1
Great site
- utopian1
Did Trump have the ball to shut it down?
- 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.
- crazyprick0
Ban that commie shit!
- PhanLo13
- NBQ001
Fucking idiots
- ETM0
Vine 2.0
- microkorg0
Also making folk pop stars too.
- utopian-1
- 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.
- NBQ002
About to get banned. Heheh.
- NBQ000
Apparently today Trump will ban TikTok: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/…
Yay
- prophetone0
#glizzypocalypse