Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoTrump 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.www.capitalbrief.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1188arrow-down114
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minus-squareDark Arc@social.packetloss.gglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·7 days agoIt’s about content delivery, i.e. the CCP having direct control over what content (i.e. propaganda) is sent to Americans on the platform via their proprietary algorithm (with all the source code heavily guarded in mainland China).
minus-squarepinball_wizard@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 days agoControlling people’s media experience to push political propaganda that helps powerful people and harms individuals - that seems really shitty. I can’t think of any app developer or political party who would do that. (This is an attempt at surrealist humor.)
It’s about content delivery, i.e. the CCP having direct control over what content (i.e. propaganda) is sent to Americans on the platform via their proprietary algorithm (with all the source code heavily guarded in mainland China).
Controlling people’s media experience to push political propaganda that helps powerful people and harms individuals - that seems really shitty.
I can’t think of any app developer or political party who would do that.
(This is an attempt at surrealist humor.)
Both can be bad.