• Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    That’s such a gross misunderstanding of the separation between TikTok and China that it’s very possible purposeful misinformation.

    China has no control whatsoever over TikTok, and in fact, there are US intelligence officers on the board for the American company. If anyone is “intentionally serving up braindead content…” it’s the US company, who is under strict control and observation by US intelligence agencies.

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      6 months ago

      Why are you lying? Every Chinese company is under the CCP’s boot, as made evident by the one time Tencent tried to fight it

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        Xenophobia and jingoism have so thoroughly riddled most American brains that you require no evidence of anything, and just exist in a “vibes based reality” where you accept entirely false information as truth because it fits your preconceptions. The US government has spent years at this point trying to prove what you’ve said about TikTok, and they’ve been entirely unable to do so, because it’s literally not true. And as I said, their US board is filled with US intelligence spooks, not Chinese ones.

        Next you’ll tell me China is pushing pro-Palestinian content on TikTok, instead of the youth just being rabidly pro-Palestine.