Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal

• Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not quite. TikTok has been shown to tweak their algorithm against criticism of China.

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  • Bronzebeard@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which is no different from any of the US social media companies tweaking their algorithms against criticism of all number of political things.

    Twitter blatantly forced right wing radical propaganda down their entire user bases through a for months. Facebook was selling user data to foreign influence groups to assist with political message targeting. They’re all the same.

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lots of people think the US social media platforms do that. But none of the scientific studies have been able to show it.
      The US companies are all purely driven by engagement, to maximize profit. The most effective source of that engagement, changes from person to person. But it’s most commonly what you might call “Rage Bait”.

      Twiter’s recent bend toward the right, is primarily self selection of it’s users. As the left… left… the platform, the pool of available content shifted right; Causing even more to leave. Unless you have some paper I haven’t seen.

      And Facebook selling data, is entirely different and unrelated. Nobody (no lawmakers) care about that.

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      • Bronzebeard@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, Twitter changed its algorithms leading up to the election. That was not self selection. They were actively pushing right wing bullshit down everyone’s throats because the owner spent $200 million trying to get the dipshit elected.

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  • finderscult@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you have a source that is not from a hostile intelligence agency?

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What intelligence agency?
      NCRI is a social media research group.

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