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WTF is going on with TikTok? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The sequence of events as far as I can recall:

Trump promised to ban TikTok
TikTok was slated to be "banned" in the twilight of Biden's term
Trump says he'd give it 90 days to make a decision
Biden decides not to ban it, handing it off to Trump
TikTok goes dark
It returns, but if you search for something anti-Trump in the United States, you can't find it
Using a VPN will give you that content
Various news outlets are now calling it Trump's "Propaganda Arm"

What the fuck is going on? From a political or technological standpoint.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Uhhh I’m using TikTok with no VPN in the US and still get plenty of anti-Trump, pro-LGBT, left-leaning content. 🤷

TikTok definitely used the news hype to signal to Donald Trump that they will work with him — by giving him “credit” for making the app available again (even though he wasn’t president yet and didn’t do anything). It’s all propaganda from both the US and China.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It’s all propaganda from both the US and China

Well, one large company based in China that saw a PR opportunity anyway, it's not like TikTok is acting at the direction of the CPC lol