Poor use of this meme template. The last sentence is not even a question!
I find it funny when people get upset that a meme template gets used in a novel way. These aren’t religious texts that are immutable, memes evolve over time.
Thinking this way is how you get “and that’s everybody’s problem” kermit
TikTok has literally nothing to do with informing tho… it’s literally the opposite.
It’s literally the main reason people found out there was a genocide happening in Gaza.
Who?
You ?
You ?
That’s simply not true, you just spend too much time on TikTok
I’m simply engaging with reality. The funny part that this is openly admitted, but here we have you pretending it’s not the case. https://www.commondreams.org/news/mitt-romney-tiktok
This doesn’t prove your point at all, there are plenty of other media outlets that were and still are reporting on Gaza. If you spent time outside of the brain rot app maybe you’d know this.
there are plenty of other media outlets that were and still are reporting on Gaza
Who?
And I mean who, as in creators putting out that content covering it, that actually has reach with the general public?
What number of people found out about it from tv and what number found out on tiktok? I wouldn’t be surprised if the tiktok number was higher. I don’t know why you’re so sure it isn’t
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All news agencies in my country have a tik tok account and regularly use it to publish exactly the same news as they do on their newspapers or on TV. I don’t see how watching that news on tik tok is any different that turning on the TV and watching it there.
You just need to train your algorithm, my tik tok always show a lot of interesting educational stuff. I can’t remember the last time I saw any kind of soft porn there, my Instagram on the other hand is always shoving big and hard gym booties on my face.
I dunno… I was informed a lot on TikTok. Like, 2020-2022 I had a whole lot of “I was X years old when I learned this…” thanks to Black and Brown creators who got a voice on TikTok that was lacking anywhere else.
I’d like tiktok to fully disappear but not for the reasons governments want it to. I just miss YouTube haikus and memes without music always playing.
the tiktok ban is making them all flood youtube… it’s going to get worse
Remember Vine? I miss Vine.
I didn’t use it explicitly but the memes that filtered out of it into other platforms were great. Tiktok and it’s initial music focus ruined short form video memes in my opinion
And the text-to-speech voiceovers. I don’t know why I detest those so much, but for some reason it just sets my teeth on edge. Like nails on a chalkboard.
Yeah it’s so impersonal, gives me the ick
By “censorship”, they meant not being able to scream the N-word at black people.
Nah. You can still do that on X (formally Twitter)
And very soon facebook as well…
You can already say other anti-black slurs on Facebook.
and very soon Facebook as well…
Welcome to America, where you are free to fuck off and die. Here’s your bill.
Tick tock was a bioweapon.
Bad take. We’re in the modern world of information warfare: expecting every citizen to be immune to psychological trickery from a nation spending tens of billions to research and test ways to trick them is unrealistic and unreasonable. There’s people with PhDs in human psychology spending their entire time and untold amounts of compute power trying to stoke the flames of division and push misinformation and you think we should allow it?
But enough about the US intelligence-industrial complex.
The US government isn’t in charge of one of the largest social media platforms in the world. US corporations are absolutely doing this as well, but that’s an argument for more regulation not to grant China free reign
The US government isn’t in charge of one of the largest social media platforms in the world. US corporations are absolutely doing this as well, but that’s an argument for more regulation not to grant China free reign
US-run social media apps are pretty much now just arms of the US surveillance state, functioning both as pro-US propaganda machines, and tools to spy on the communications of the entire world.
For example, the most popular social media app in India for example, is facebook. The US controls the main method of news and communication for a country much larger than its own.
Damn didn’t know the US Government owned Facebook.
US Government doesn’t own AT&T, and yet, they have their fiber splice in AT&T’s building, in order to spy on all international communications.
He didn’t say the government owned Facebook. Even so, it doesn’t need to own it to control the flow of information.
The US intelligence & propaganda machines dwarf those of all other states, just as the US military dwarfs those of all other states. And they don’t only direct it at other countries, they direct it inward, too. “Russiagate” was a domestic psyop directed at its own people, to manufacture our consent to censorship. Hamilton 68: How former intelligence officials and Democratic operatives conspired to manufacture ‘Russiagate’
The US most definitely uses its surveillance and propaganda system to influence the public. This was all exposed a long time ago.
The thought that Russia influences AOTUS is a conspiracy is probably one of the more bonker things I have ever heard though.
For sure stories were made up but anything short of of acknowledging that Russia has financially supported and heavily influenced everything about the current administration is pure conservatard garbage.
- Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
- Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
- Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
- UC Santa Barbara: President Donald J. Trump to Withdraw the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
- The Hill: Trump administration pulls out of Open Skies treaty with Russia
- CBC: How successive U.S. administrations resisted arming Ukraine Yet since the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations have all, to some degree, delayed or balked at sending lethal aid to Ukraine
- Jeff Gerth at Columbia Journalism Review on Russiagate: Editor’s Note | Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four
- Matt Taibbi: WMD, Part II: CIA “Cooked The Intelligence” To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
- Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away
I am not sure what you were trying to express with that. Half the articles show how Trump has supported Russian interests to the detrament of the international community.
It is clear you have not even taken the time to read your own articles. I am guessing you push so much conservtard bullshit it is impossible to keep up with the lies.
There is no doubt Russia heavily influences Aotus. Just the simple matter of bank rolling him demonstrates all you need to know.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how-russian-money-helped-save-trumps-business/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/
I actually read all these as well.
This is such peak western projection holy shit
expecting every citizen to be immune to psychological trickery from a nation spending tens of billions to research and test ways to trick them is unrealistic and unreasonable.
Trying to scrub all properganda from our lives is also impossible. Better to get a balanced media diet from a variety of sources.
That’s hard when people smarter than you are being paid billions to study and test exactly how to keep you addicted to their media platform. And if that doesn’t work, they’ll just buy your preferred media platform and devolve it themselves.
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I’m not going to pretend losing tik tok, or any social media, is some travesty. Sorry.
Cool. Now do Meta and Twitter.
Are you saying next are going to be Facebook, Twitter and maybe Fox? Dont give me hope…
what world event is exclusive to tiktok?
