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TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I would make a joke if this wasn't deeply, deeply worrying.

This is how the Nazis solidify support in genZ and genAlpha.

America is fucked.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A lot more than America becomes fucked when tiktok becomes owned by these guys. It'll become their global platform to radicalize youth Nazis from one corner of the globe to another. Time to hope the youth outside America are smart enough to see thorough this, but if our recent Canadian election was any indication then they are not.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    A lot more than America

    I agree, but this is just tiktok in America. Everywhere else, users remain on the global version.

    'America is fucked' because this comes alongside everything else - control of the media, control of all branches of government, building the paramilitary Gestapo (ICE) etc. The whole western world is at risk but America is further down the road.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Nazi content is already insanely popular on tiktok. There is Minecraft edits with slogans like "take back the west" and a sonnenrad in the background getting millions of views. Nick Funetes an open Nazi does numbers.

    The platform is a cesspit and can't get any worse.

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