TikTok: Firm calls report of possible sale to Elon Musk 'pure fiction'
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The firm has repeatedly said it will not sell its US operation as it face a 19 January deadline.
  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Ooof, can you imagine? Gen alpha would all become reactionary right-wingers. Being older and living through that would be like that Ricky & Morty episode where Rick regenerates himself in an alternate universe and Morty is a fascist ordering him around.

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      Could you imagine if TikTok started to promote far-right fascist parties?

      Oh wait…

      Context: The fascist German AfD is by far the most popular party on TikTok, getting more views than all others combined. It’s worse than on Facebook or YouTube.

      • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        Yeah, it’s not great already! But one thing I’ve learned as I transition from a skeptical optimist to whatever I am now is that it can always get worse, and Musk at this point seems to be aspiring to be Goebbels.

      • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        And they basically did a spearfishing attack on all of Romania to promote a neo-nazi in their presidential elections.

    • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      2 days ago

      That would certainly be the plan to radicalize them to fight with each other, while him & his cronies strip the world clean & then they escape only to learn #MarsLife was a suicide mission.