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- yuekit0
Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok
Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok.
The campaign includes placing op-eds and letters to the editor in major regional news outlets, promoting dubious stories about alleged TikTok trends that actually originated on Facebook, and pushing to draw political reporters and local politicians into helping take down its biggest competitor.
Employees with the firm, Targeted Victory, worked to undermine TikTok through a nationwide media and lobbying campaign portraying the fast-growing app, owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance, as a danger to American children and society, according to internal emails shared with The Washington Post.
- yuekit0
- This is basically the USA caving to China's view of the world where every country chooses to ban certain apps and websites based on politics.yuekit
- Didn't China ban our socials?
fuck'em ban that shitYakuZoku - https://www.youtube.…i_monk
- @yuekit, You could make that argument if china didn't have it both ways. Plus, do you want 'China's view of the world' to control the algorithm?hotroddy
- if you're advocating for standing up against authoritarianism, it's contradictory to oppose Musk's anti-authoritarian gov't stance (brazil, australia, etc)hotroddy
- USA isn't prohibiting tiktok from operating unlike FB in China.hotroddy
- There isn't actually any evidence I've seen that TikTok is spreading China's view of the world. It's all just theoretical hysteria by boomer politicians.yuekit
- https://www.techdirt…yuekit
- And Elon Musk is not really a supporter of free speech unfortunately. Look at how he got the Texas attorney general to investigate Media Matters after theyyuekit
- criticized him. He's also very servile towards China for obvious reasons, so his public opposition to the TikTok ban should probably be seen in that light.yuekit
- The idea Musk is anti-authoritarian is hilarious and you'd have to be pretty stupid to believe it.i_monk
- Yeah think about it... he supports Ron DeSantis... Bolsonaro.. and the CCP!yuekit
- sted4
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- great teddy bear analogy he’s bang on, throwing heat temporarily behind garbage is everywhere I mean just look at the ridiculous ‘music industry’ now it’s fluffprophetone
- in 90s and earlier esp in an industry like music or film, more often than not the heat was reserved for those with actual talentprophetone
- nowadays talent isn’t even factored in if you’re popular enough to boost the socials and generate ANY type of hype, you get teddy bears from all directionsprophetone
- and now it’s on a hyper mico level, a nobody kid can sing or dance or do something dumb for 10 secs and get millions overnight bc hype onlyprophetone
- PhanLo-1
- prophetone7
- https://www.theverge…neverscared
- You made this for nothing
:(grafician - Thanks, Trump. Idiot.NBQ00
- I was hoping it would be shut down for real.NBQ00
- WE ALL DIDgrafician
- Trump holds victory rally as TikTok restores service. He's a man of Chinese people!
https://thehill.com/…utopian - Username doesn't check out.palimpsest
- ^lolYakuZoku
- https://vm.tiktok.co…prophetone
- neverscared0
TikTok has announced that, after going away for about half a day, its service is coming back on in the US. The company posted on X that it is “in the process of restoring service” and thanked President Trump for “providing the necessary clarity” to do so
- ********0
TikTok is back.
Trump bent over for China
- Actually no. They lost any leverage in any future negociation for a sale. A sale will happen. But just closing tiktok until then would lose its value for peoplegrafician
- So they will keep it alive for 2-3 months until some US entity will scoop it up for cheap.grafician
- Lolwut********
- Wake up dude********
- I agree with grafician hereKrassy
- @nb lolwut
It's about controlling the platform that can directly influence elections - the US wants that power, it's that easygrafician - China just gonna hand it over?********
- Would prefer they shut it down...grafician
- grafician-1
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"Trump said this morning that he would issue an executive order on Monday, once he takes office, extending TikTok’s timeline to be sold."
"The incoming president said he would still require that the app be sold, adding that it would possibly be through “a joint venture between the current owners and/or new owners whereby the U.S. gets a 50 percent ownership.”"
- Apple and Google still keeping the ban for now, no Tiktok in their app storesgrafician
- "Monday"kingsteven
- Trump once labeled TikTok the "enemy of the people. Then comes along his billionaire buddy Jeff Yass and does a 180 on TikTok.utopian
- https://www.politico…utopian
- https://www.nbcnews.…utopian
- https://fortune.com/…utopian
- webazoot0
TikTok users posting cat videos do not threaten UK national security, minister says
- Wankers. This platform can directly influence elections, this muppet has no cluegrafician
- ^ that's not why they were banning it in the US and obviously not what the minister is referring tokingsteven
- ^ if you're referring to the uncensored posts about war in middle east...
But then again UK bends to whoever these days, so no, the minister still has no clue.grafician - no, you have a whole conspiracy about US control/ propaganda... when they were banning it because the app itself is potential spywarekingsteven
- not that it wont come under US control at some point. but that is what this minister is referring to - the threat of tiktok being Chinese spywarekingsteven
- Being spyware is one thing affecting individual users; another thing using the platform for influence campaignsgrafician
- yeah, thats not why they wanted to ban it. The content from US users is already hosted and monitored in the US by Oracle due to Trump intervening in 2020kingsteven
- utopian1
Billionaire's Larry Ellison and Elon Musk helped bankroll both Trump's presidential campaigns and his Ellison's company Oracle controls all of the data for TikTok.
Both Larry Ellison and Elon Musk are interested in acquiring TikTok.
Trump says he's open to TikTok sale to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/21/…
- utopian2
Elon Musk or Larry Ellison could buy TikTok, Trump says
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-…
- grafician0
"President Trump to sign executive order to keep TikTok running for another 75 days"
- Finally, some good newsPhanLo
- Thankkkk... god
(closes eyes, prayer hands, looks up, points to sky, kisses chain or something)prophetone - "Associated Press reports that deal to sell TikTok to American investors 'collapsed' after Trump's tariffs on China"grafician
