So they banned facebook and twitter too? 'Cause…
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UNIX84@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Thanks AIPAC, for protecting Americans from foreign misinformation campaigns.
Vodulas@beehaw.org 5 months ago
UNIX84@beehaw.org 5 months ago
No, Facebook and Twitter are still useful for the status quo.
Vodulas@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Ah, I missed the sarcasm in the original comment. Carry in
zaphod@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Oh please. The anti-TikTok hysteria has been going on much longer than the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
Agree or not with the anti-China rhetoric about TikTok, but at least argue about the facts and not inane conspiracy theories.
stembolts@programming.dev 5 months ago
They outlawed Fox News?
Don’t pretend this is about disinformation.
This is about the seizure of media outlets that don’t parrot pro-capitalist propaganda.
But it’s too late, the majority of each generation millennial and later is anti-capitalist. The critique media will simply change form.
Scrof@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
No, only boomers watch Fox News, young people watch TikTok making it a way more potent weapon.
stembolts@programming.dev 5 months ago
And the weapon is ideas? If a society has to shield itself from ideas to prevent revolt, then perhaps that society has bigger problems. Patching the hole as a united bipartisan front, when the ONLY things that receives united bipartisan support is corporate interests, kinda gives their hand away. They’re doing this as a desperation move to prevent societal erosion and more importantly, loss of power in media. I think it’s too late.
Seems like an upheaval, electorally or otherwise, is at hand and this is a desperation move. I don’t expect the patching to prevent the rain, but who knows.
My interpretation, open to being wrong.
UNIX84@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Fox News isn’t rallying people against Palestine.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 5 months ago
But tiktok the company is? And there are certainly also people on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and even Lemmy rallying to support Palestine. And that’s what you tried to avoid with your “argument” in the first place, that many us companies are far worse in spreading misinformation. How does your one very specific point prove anything? And why focus on this one at all? Meanwhile fox news especially has been rallying against all kinds of minorities since forever in the US. You have very weak arguments here, maybe you just want to have tiktok banned? But then just say so outright.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 5 months ago
Yes, among other things they’re also explicitly suppressing pro-Isreal content lemmy.world/post/14643617
BennyHill@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
No misinformation is needed for that.