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by kelnos 548 days ago
This has nothing to do with Israel. It's economic protectionism and refusing to allow a totalitarian government to have a platform they can use to run unfetterd influence campaigns on our citizens.

> TikTok and its algorithm isn’t beholden to the US’s government mandate like the other social media platforms

Oh please, possible government censorship/influence over US-run social media has been investigated to death over the past several years. There's no there there.

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> There's no there there.

You mean, like the DoD antivax campaign [1], which Meta explicitly allowed to continue after warning DoD their campaign was obvious to them? The same Meta that constantly publishes blog posts about them taking down foreign influence campaigns? DoD already admitted, but I guess I should probably take your word that these things don’t exist? (To be fair, these things usually don’t exist (tm) until declassified decades later. I always wondered why this one was exposed and even acknowledged so soon.)

[1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covi...