May? Trump said he's giving his son the CEO job.

Might? It was pretty clear that the goal of buying it was to turn it in a rightwing propaganda machine

its not a tiktok sale and i dont understand why media keeps repeating this. they're licensing the algorithm to a new spun off us company silo'ed from the rest of the world.

also tiktok has been garbage slop forever anyway.

I thought the nazi propaganda on the internet was annoying 20 years ago when I occasionally bumped into it. Now I'll have to carefully curate the internet to not have to hear it constantly. Jfc.

Glad I deleted Tik Tok and all it's bullshit

This was the plan all along. It became enormously influential, so Trump is forcing China to sell it to MAGA and become ANOTHER mouthpiece for the Conservative Propaganda Machine. They did it to Twitter, they did it to Reddit, and now they're going to do it to TikTok.

If China is okay with the sale that means it's not good for the US. Danger, Will Robinson, danger!

I mean it already is the biggest superspreader of far right content in Europe and I would assume in the US as well. But please don‘t come with anecdotes about your TikTok experience because it‘s the most personalized content platform so it‘s irrelevant what your feed looks like right now. I‘m saying this because often times at least one TikTok user will rush in to defend the platform with their personal experience whenever this is brought up.

They are not becoming more right-wing, they are becoming more pro-Israel.Even Netanyahu said that they are buying TikTok to brainwash the youth with Israeli propaganda.

"May"??

Wait is the US more right-wing than China? Isn't China supposed to be an authoritarian hell hole committing genocide and the USA a bastion of freedom, merely helping with a genocide?

Soooo any open source tiktok alternatives anyone can recommend?

Edit:

Found Some alternatives on https://alternativeto.net/:

Loops by Pixelfed, Vidzy, Olas (Very new), & Spark.so all seem interesting

It's great for controlling the minds if millions.

"The calls are coming from inside the house!"

they are hoping to capture the gen-z crowd into leaning right wing before they jump ship to another platform.

I don't care about tiktok. Just don't use ut

One more platform goes to shit

The optimism of using the word might is doing some heavy lifting here.

it's almost like every person in tech is clairvoyant...

May => will become more right wing. whats the alternative

1. It was always Right Wing, it was controlled by CCP Military.

2. It's still controlled by the CCP Military, they're just migrating to a cloud server that Beijing still has full access to.