Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock fo... by metamet on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @05:10PM (#40149694)

QAnon was massive on TikTok in 2019/2020, to the point that TikTok took measures to address it, blocking hashtags and banning accounts.

There seems to still be a large conspiratorial rabbit hole on TikTok that still leads to QAnon influencers (using more generalized hashtags and catch all conspiracies).

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Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock fo... by nemothekid on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @05:13PM (#40149740)

QAnon related topics were banned in July/Aug 2020 and became community guidelines violations. Facebook did nothing about QAnon until post-January 6th.

Given the demographics of those most heavily influenced by QAnon, it's ridiculous to imply that Tiktok had even a 10th of the influence of Facebook wrt to QAnon.

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Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock fo... by p_j_w on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @06:41PM (#40150744)

So what you're saying is TikTok actually took action against the most dangerous conspiracy movement the country has seen in our lifetimes while other American companies left it alone? And I'm supposed to be pissed at TikTok and support them being banned?

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Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock fo... by asadotzler on Thursday April 25, 2024 @12:17AM (#40153365)

Well, HN libertarians think the conspiracy should flourish.

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