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 robgibbons on Thursday April 25, 2024 @12:47AM (#40153534)

CCP is a major pusher of disinformation/propaganda. Look up Dragonbridge. Or how YouTube had to remove thousands of CCP propaganda channels. Or the classic "US Army Covid Origin" story that China pushed when social media came for Wuhan.

China's 50-cent army buys social media accounts, or creates fake personas, to push narratives and abuses reporting/takedown mechanisms to suppress unfavorable posts and channels.

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Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock fo... by ClumsyPilot on Thursday April 25, 2024 @09:06AM (#40157041)

This is major pusher of propaganda?

> Most DRAGONBRIDGE activity is low quality content without a political message, populated across many channels and blogs

If anything, this is a demonstration that their efforts are futile and incompetent, very much non-threat. I’ve seen even 4chan do better

We have multiple actors that push divisive misinformation through bots, much more successfully, and we do not apply any scrutiny to that.

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