TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday

Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by Workaccount2 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:34AM (#42712078)

On non CCP controlled platforms, they cannot chose what stories to "organically" promote and who to promote them too. Most people have no concept of the 99% of posts to social media that never get traction.

They can still kind of do it, but it requires a lot of work to fool other companies algo's into artificially promoting what you want. Much easier to just call up Bytedance and say "We need everyone in this area seeing this tiktok tomorrow".

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by felbane on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:55AM (#42712439)

If you think domestic social media companies aren't capable of silently promoting certain content at the request of someone with influence... you wouldn't happen to be in the market for a bridge, would you?

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by daveguy on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:59AM (#42712499)

Non CCP controlled platforms can definitely choose what stories to promote. Musk does it every day on twitter. Oligarch controlled social media is just as much a blight as government controlled social media.

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by Workaccount2 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:06PM (#42713694)

Of course they do, but they aren't interested in toppling the west.

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by daveguy on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @04:18PM (#42717155)

Guess we will find out. They sure do seem to prefer Russian style oligarchy and control over Western values.

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