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Re:Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok by voisin on Saturday January 18, 2025 @05:15PM (#42751842)
> one massive privacy invading democracy undermining psyop

Sounds like Meta.

Re:Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok by blackeyeblitzar on Saturday January 18, 2025 @05:48PM (#42752053)
To an extent, I agree. I think TikTok is far more insidious. If you look at the agreements US based workers had to sign, to uphold goals of the Chinese government, the injection of state sponsored bias into their product seems pretty explicit. With Meta there have been both private censorship decisions (due to the bias of the company’s own executive and employees) as well as pressure from the US government (see Biden administration back channels to request censorship). But even so, I don’t think these are comparable in magnitude and extent.