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
arrow-up1174arrow-down1external-linkTrump 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.comTea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square40fedilink
minus-squarehopesdead@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down2·6 days agoWhy the fuck does this dude care so much about one social media platform being available here? Is he perving on dancing teenagers?
minus-squareAngryRobot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·6 days agoBecause it’s been an incredibly successful propoganda vector for the youth vote.
minus-squarehopesdead@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoHuh. Is that good or bad? I don’t pay attention to TikTok. I’m not on there.
minus-squareBrandonazz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·6 days agoVery obviously bad. You want educated voters, not propagandized ones.
minus-squareRymrgand's Daughter @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 days agoBad, it’s why so many of them are magattes.
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 days agotiktok 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.
minus-squarenutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoI believe it is part of a strategy known as indoctrination
Why the fuck does this dude care so much about one social media platform being available here? Is he perving on dancing teenagers?
Because it’s been an incredibly successful propoganda vector for the youth vote.
Huh. Is that good or bad?
I don’t pay attention to TikTok. I’m not on there.
Very obviously bad. You want educated voters, not propagandized ones.
Bad, it’s why so many of them are magattes.
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.
I believe it is part of a strategy known as indoctrination