I don't doubt there are lots people who settle on tiktok as their main social media platform to avoid the sea of nazis and fascists on twitter/facebook/etc. but IMO the major reason is that it's just a waaaaaay better product compared to the dog shit american apps and websites.
That and usability. Tiktok is a better platform than it's copycats just like tinder is better than everything that has tried to copy it.
Did you not read that article or notice that it's over 4 years old?
Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing
Leak spells out how social media app advances China’s foreign policy aimswww.theguardian.com
Literally got caught red handed my dude
I mean, he's totally right. All these social media companies are a problem and they all need to be addressed. It's a joke that they're only doing this to tiktok and not everyone.
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I mean, he's totally right. All these social media companies are a problem and they all need to be addressed. It's a joke that they're only doing this to tiktok and not everyone.
New study reveals TikTok’s spread of COVID-19 misinformation
A new study conducted by PhD student Morgan Lundy, which was recently published in the International Journal of Communication, reveals how TikTok's unique features have been used to spread COVID-19 misinformation. Unlike Twitter, which uses a text format, the micro-video format of TikTok makes...ischool.illinois.edu
TikTok search results riddled with misinformation: Report
A U.S. firm that monitors false online claims reports that searches for information about prominent news topics on TikTok are likely to turn up results riddled with misinformation.
How TikTok Became a Hotbed of Brand Misinformation
Videos on TikTok advancing false and misleading claims about prominent consumer brands garnered 57 million views in a NewsGuard analysis
Ukraine war: How TikTok fakes pushed Russian lies to millions
The BBC uncovers a vast Russia-based network of fake TikTok accounts pushing disinformation about Ukraine.
More recent, how's that?
Seriously, I agree that they shouldn't be doing this but the argument you're making is just bad.
It absolutely does though, you just don't see it because of the algorithm. Try working with kids, they find all of the horrible shit on that platform without fail and then you have to talk to them about it.
Yep. This blew my mind to see.Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing
Leak spells out how social media app advances China’s foreign policy aims
Literally got caught red handed my dude
This article went into how people who willingly seek misinformation are gonna be bombarded with it due to Tiktok's algorithm.I mean, he's totally right. All these social media companies are a problem and they all need to be addressed. It's a joke that they're only doing this to tiktok and not everyone.
New study reveals TikTok’s spread of COVID-19 misinformation
A new study conducted by PhD student Morgan Lundy, which was recently published in the International Journal of Communication, reveals how TikTok's unique features have been used to spread COVID-19 misinformation. Unlike Twitter, which uses a text format, the micro-video format of TikTok makes...
Not that Tiktok itself, nor the CCP is spreading misinformation. Let alone the popularity of such videos vs opposing views. Actually looking into it, all of the articles you've linked have been a look into how Tiktok's algorithm functions as opposed to it deliberately pushing misinformation onto the userbase. Let alone acknowledging that due to the sheer size of the fanbase that yes an algorithm hat responds to what you search for by actually feeding you content related directly to it instead of tangentially also applies to people who are going down a rabbit hole of misinformation about topics. Or making it comparable let alone just as bas as the websites literally responsible for the rise of the alt right in America. Hell, i've had Tiktok throughout the Russian Ukraine conflict, and i've never once been presented with misinformation on the topic or a pro Russian perspective. However, if say, a new account were to search for pro Russian views, that's what they'll incresingly get fed overtime because Tiktok doesn't function like a forum, twitter thread, YT comment section, etc.
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It looks to me like the previous Montana and Trump executive orders specifically named TikTok (and WeChat in the latter). This new bill didn't say that but is more broad in that it's saying they want divestment from a list of unfriendly countries, so to speak. I am no lawyer though, so I guess there is one law professor who says that's no bueno. I do think this will be in legal battle for a while so we shall see how that goes.TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment
TikTok owner has strong First Amendment case against US ban, professors say https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/tiktok-owner-has-strong-first-amendment-case-against-us-ban-professors-say/
Honestly, I imagine they'll lose on first amendment grounds. Even though it doesn't say it's targeting them, it's literally the only app affected. Not like Russia is putting out some hot new app.
The pro-Ukraine one is a big standout. Pro-Israel makes sense with the demographics and younger generally supporting Palestine, but are zoomers big Putin lovers?
I mean we did have posters here parroting Russian propaganda during the first couple months of the war so it wouldn't surprise me.
It should be noted that there are over 6 million videos on the subject of Ukraine. And pro-Ukraine videos are frontloaded.
They also say that a post indicates whether or not someone has read the thread before posting. You sound so proud of posting this picture that has been refuted from an article that's been refuted multiple times ITT.... 🙃
What could China do to possibly make the youth more unhappy with the US when the US is dojng a bangup job and making younger generations unhappy with the current state of affairs. Do you think banning Tiktok will make that sentiment go away in anyway shape or form?
We didn't underestimate Russia, we literally observed what Russia was doing, spoke about it, got ignored by MSNN that downplayed the severity of it as well as the rise of the alt right in general circa 2014. Meanwhile Facebook and Twitter literally did the opposite of addressing the problem and instead boosted that content on their platforms, while simultaneously selling user data to China btw.
I did address the text in your post, it was scaremongering BS that again, has already been refuted multiple times ITT and across multiple Tiktok threads. Three generations of Americans have far more pertinent things to worry about than the hypothetical of China doing anything to affect the US youth's opinion of the US. You have no leg to stand on because people don't give a shit about China scaremongering. That doesn't work in 2024. Again, especially as it pertains to the youth.
FYI, that program seems to have been ended in 2019 according to WaPo in 2022. It's slightly less dystopian there now.
Right wing extremism is literally the biggest threat to the US and Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube wrote the book on how to radicalize the youth most especially young white men yet somehow TikTok is the threat because China bad/US good is meant to be a universal truth as if the US hasn't committed a genocide within the last decade let alone the systemic injustices that're ingrained in America.
Slightly less dystopian vs Dystopian? That is not a distinction I care to make for obvious reasons.
Actually, not so much dude: https://uhrp.org/insights/uhrp-anal...ed-in-region-with-worlds-highest-prison-rate/
Taiwan isn't China dude. This is offensive to pretty much everyone who lives there.
I didn't realize what I said was offensive to Taiwanese folks, so I will edit my post. I meant it as Taiwan being a more legitimate government than the PRC since it is democratic. It certainly wasn't meant as a diss. I have edited my post to remove that.
Haha honestly, it's semantic at this point. The only reason they haven't gone ahead and change the name or anything is because of People's Republic of China's threat. They'd consider it a Declaration of Independence and a needless war would start.
My sister literally just told me in the middle of a long conversation about the injustice of what Isreal is doing that we should stop sending aid to Ukraine.
You are misunderstanding that article and in reality the situation continues to worsen, but China just obfuscates more how they do it such as false charges leading to imprisonment, https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/imprisonment-rate-report-05022024144951.html . On top of these numbers, the internment camps are still ongoing. Anything saying the opposite is playing down an ongoing genocide.
I mean, he's totally right. All these social media companies are a problem and they all need to be addressed. It's a joke that they're only doing this to tiktok and not everyone.
New study reveals TikTok’s spread of COVID-19 misinformation
A new study conducted by PhD student Morgan Lundy, which was recently published in the International Journal of Communication, reveals how TikTok's unique features have been used to spread COVID-19 misinformation. Unlike Twitter, which uses a text format, the micro-video format of TikTok makes...
TikTok search results riddled with misinformation: Report
A U.S. firm that monitors false online claims reports that searches for information about prominent news topics on TikTok are likely to turn up results riddled with misinformation.
How TikTok Became a Hotbed of Brand Misinformation
Videos on TikTok advancing false and misleading claims about prominent consumer brands garnered 57 million views in a NewsGuard analysis
Ukraine war: How TikTok fakes pushed Russian lies to millions
The BBC uncovers a vast Russia-based network of fake TikTok accounts pushing disinformation about Ukraine.
More recent, how's that?
Seriously, I agree that they shouldn't be doing this but the argument you're making is just bad.
this panel has been horrificaly abused since its very first day, but comparing the peasant that has to participate in a unfair economy so they can survive with the LITERAL US GOVERNMENT gotta be a new low
You mean the thing they can do right now on american owned social media? You accomplish nothing by banning TikTok, Russia and China can just go and buy all your data from Meta instead
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