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TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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Donald Trump has successfully used xenophobia and fake concerns about propaganda and national security to get what he’s long wanted: TikTok (and its fat ad revenues) are poised to be sold off to his right wing billionaire buddies and, inevitably, slowly converted into a right wing propaganda safe space.

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[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That could work of nobody knew it was changing to another hands. But once everybody knows it's not the same, people flee.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

You'd think...but that isn't really the case. People have known what tiktok is for years, and still use it. Alao, look at Twitter. Everyone knows what Elon Musk bought it for, and what he's turned it into...but people still use it.