• Lulzagna@lemmy.world
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        20 hours ago

        You’re right, Google controls what I see and pushes right wing propaganda to my phone. TikTok’s algorithm actually works to serve me content based on my interests, and I have true political discussion and discourse there.

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          19 hours ago

          Google doesn’t push right wing propaganda to my phone. Do they only do that to US citizens?

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            19 hours ago

            I’m Canadian - 2 weeks before the election I started getting about an article per day pushed to my Android phone, for a few days.

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              13 hours ago

              Now when you say “pushed to”, where and how did that actually manifest “on” your phone.

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                12 hours ago

                Android will push notifications for news articles that you may be “interested” in. I think it used to be called Google Now.

                Congress is concerned about theoretical propaganda, but it’s a reality in nearly every major news outlet and tech companies, but zero concern when it fits a certain narrative.

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                  8 hours ago

                  Huh. Curious. I’ve been using Google Now, and after that, its successor, for a long time. Rarely do I see any political propaganda. Just sane reporting. I’m based on Northern Europe though.

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        2 days ago

        I hope you mean Google, they track you all over the web whether you want to be tracked or not just because lazy web developers can’t be bothered to host their own fonts (and other ways but that’s just one example). You have to deliberately download or use TikTok for them to get your data.

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          21 hours ago

          Not to mention meta. They’ll do all of the above and when they’re done sell the data to the highest bidder.