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Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Trump plans to announce a company called TikTok America, with a 50% stake for US investors and 19.9% for ByteDance, which would license the algorithm.

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Trump plans to announce a company called TikTok America, with a 50% stake for US investors and 19.9% for ByteDance, which would license the algorithm.

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Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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Trump to unveil TikTok America plan to skirt US ban, says The Information
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Amazon has made a surprise last-minute bid to buy TikTok, days before a Saturday deadline for the app to separate from its Chinese owner or be banned in the United States, The New York Times reported citing three unnamed sources.
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    Why the fuck does this dude care so much about one social media platform being available here? Is he perving on dancing teenagers?

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      Because it’s been an incredibly successful propoganda vector for the youth vote.

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        Huh. Is that good or bad?

        I don’t pay attention to TikTok. I’m not on there.

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          Very obviously bad. You want educated voters, not propagandized ones.

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          Bad, it’s why so many of them are magattes.

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      tiktok is used by genz and alpha alot, it helps that they would be the next generation of a dying GOP voters which are primarily boomers, Xers, and some milleneals.

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      I believe it is part of a strategy known as indoctrination

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