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definitely not astroturfing, no sir, no influence campaign going on here, nothing unusual to see, please go back to consuming content without questioning who is pushing it or how or why
Romania orders election recount after TikTok bias claims
EU investigates TikTok over Romanian presidential election safeguards
What happened on TikTok around the annulled Romanian presidential election? An investigation and poll
The Chinese government is using TikTok to meddle in elections, ODNI says
And finally we have the official statement from TikTok... Our commitment to election integrity
Not one word of this "commitment" should be trusted.
Maybe I am "missing the point", but you seem to be somehow missing the entire reality of what is actually going on.
This is not about "all social media", this is about specific influence campaigns being conducted to manipulate political outcomes via TikTok either with the PRC's blessing or under their direct instruction. It is real, it is intentional, it is happening right now, and your "smell test" is fucking broken because all of the actual evidence demonstrates that banning TikTok is the correct move.
Isn't musk doing very obvious and very intentional political influence with Twitter, for example in Germany? Why isn't Twitter also banned?
The real scene is on Nazigram. All the coolsters are there.
Maoster would like a word. Forget showing skin... It's so cool it explicitly bans intellectuals from its platform.
Milkshake Duck has been promoting PolPotBook where it uses facial recognition to see if you're wearing glasses. If so, then starving villagers are sent to your location to rip you apart. So cool.
found the chinese shill
they are not even banning tiktok. tiktok violated a law and may get punished. it's tiktoks decision if they shut down because they can't let guys from china look into US citizens collected data. they could have just revoked access of chinese requests to the data.