Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
by barbazoo on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:28PM
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You might be missing the fact that there is a significant amount of bots on Reddit pushing certain agendas giving the impression they're foreign sponsored.
Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
by redactd on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:44PM
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you may be right that there is a, "significant amount of bots on Reddit pushing certain agendas". However, Reddit is fundamentally designed to incentivize authentic engagement and to punish bots. If it wasn't the case before is certainly is now given the fact that they are now extracting value from the authenticity of data on their platform via AI Training data sales. Reddit is fiduciarily encouraged to tamp down bots and spam because they are financially incentivized to have the most genuine data.
All of that aside it is irrelevant because we are talking about third parties (users/bots) pushing propaganda vs the platform owner itself pushing propaganda.
Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
by NooneAtAll3 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:33PM
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I'd vouch for fake-ness of political Reddit as well
it's easier to see phrasing and logical inconsistencies when you don't share the opinion that gets forced, sadly
Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
by the_sleaze_ on Friday January 17, 2025 @06:44PM
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You disagree - try this. Go to the "popular" feed and take a scroll.
I compel you to find one single positive post about capitalism or the west. Count the number of anti-capitalist or blatant pro-ccp content posts.
One such - "Luigis game is about to be multiplayer" (reference to the recent murder of the insurance company ceo) with a video with the label "y'all look how the chinese are living" (compared to usa)
You also say you put faith in a profit seeking US company. Reddit is not a USA owned company.
Call me old fashion, but I put more faith in a profit seeking US company (recently public) with light government oversight than a foreign owned black box.