They’re trying to turn it into truth social. I want to say people won’t fall for it, but I’m sure some will
Most probably don’t care or don’t know, and hence, will fall for it.
That’s why this is so terrifying. Twitter at least had a politically engaged userbase, so people noticed the changes. Tiktok users get political content only incidentally, and has far fewer actual journalists. They are going to get manipulated beyond reason.
So far in Spain as of now, talking of Vox (right wing) gets your content shadow banned (it’s been the case for a month or so)
but that’s now, maybe if that happens the censorship will flip sides
So nothing changes.
I used to think China was authoritarian for banning western social media platforms.
Now I completely understand and sympathise with them
Behind the fig leaf, the argument was never “China’s surveilling our kids!” but rather “China’s getting data about kids that rightfully belongs to the U.S., to slice and dice how we see fit. This evil must be stopped!”
Well, at least it matches most of the other corporate social web.
Wonder if it’ll start heavily promoting the new EA game, Battlewoke.
