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I'm staggered so many people seem to think TikTok isn't used to sway public opinions.
It's people who run apologia for anything the Chinese government or even Chinese business does.
Meanwhile I remember that TikTok helped Trump' s youth outreach campaign with the message they gave when US access was restored, so they've already signalled they're not on my side.
This is a case where you have to be careful about cause-effect order. I assume that Tiwanese people that are heavily opposed to China are more likely to avoid tiktok. But of course, it's been shown that tiktok tends to show more pro-China "content" as well, and likely influences the opinions of its users.
It’s not just that, it’s also culture takeover. A lot of young people in Taiwan speak and think like mainland Chinese now.
Frequent Guardian readers more likely to agree with anti-China narratives, study finds.
tiktok is no exception, today all major content sources are rottenly biased.
like anyone relying on msm or /r/worldnews will think israel is fighting for survival against an ultra-advance alien invasion rather than genociding unarmed starving population with missiles, drones and snipers.
Let's hope for Loops to take over!
This is how I expect China to actually absorb Taiwan.
The only legitimate reason they want it at this point is the chip manufacturies, and those are rigged with self destruct explosives in case of a losing war.
But use propaganda and bribes to get the country to join willingly, and that extremely valuable financial and scientific infrastructure remains safe.
I suppose that’s… better than a war in the future?
So when a person shows up at your house with a gun, you should also just move out and hand it over?
That’s not the right analogy here. The better analogy would be something like:
Your scary mafia-related neighbor shows up with a document saying your land belongs to his land. You said no way, you have connections with someone important that assured you your house is yours only and they’ll help you with another mafia if they want to invade your house. The whole neighborhood gets scared of an upcoming bloodbath that might drag everyone into it.
But now your son says he actually agrees that your house belongs to your neighbor, and he’s likely waiting until you’re old enough to possibly give it up to him.
According to western media like Instagram, Facebook, X. I should go outside of my house when Israelis come into my doorsteps and take my house. I should also use my hard earned tax money to supply them with more weapons so they can steal more of our houses.
But when China does it with Tiktok, it’s bad. bad
I’m so tired if europeans and people of european descent pretending like they have moral high ground over China. I’m done with the double standards. I’m tired of how colonized their brains are.
Both China and USA (and Europe) are in the wrong with everything.
One side doing bad things doesn’t make another side doing bad things ok. Democracy isn’t perfect but it is better than the rest of the systems. Money in politics sours the pot.
oh yeah, just giving in to opression is easier than fighting it, ain't it?
Tik Tok seriously is a fucking cancer.
Capitalism is fucking cancer. TikTok is a tool that uses algorithms to manipulate public perception. Trump had interest in this app, not because it was telling the truth, but you can tell it to tell a certain truth. We pretty much don't have any education anymore. It's just training for conformity to work at your McWagey job.
It's so jover. Not even "reputable" news outlets know what correlation is anymore 💀
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2025
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