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Since billionaire Jeff Yass is in the news for his involvement in #TikTok and #Trump's #TruthSocial, here's our deep-dive look into the #GOP megadonor who avoided $1 billion in #taxes and poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support #election deniers.
Friendly reminder: algorithm-based social media platforms are toxic by design, bad for your mental health and responsible for spreading misinformation and disinformation.
So many people on here are like “it’s better if #TikTok is owned by an American company and not China” but @GottaLaff knows what’s up, the idea is to put it in the hands of some right-winger who will do what they accuse China of doing or who will do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter. https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112094226896024088
I don't think #twitter really cares if they lose advertisers or if they have to pull out of EU. They don't care about being a global platform, and money is just a possible side benefit.
What they do want is to control the political discourse in their home country.
The same is likely happening with #Reddit ; expect similar changes to other platforms. Same about stopping non-US platforms ( #tiktok ).
The long-term goal is to deplatform anyone not on the political far right. And it's working.
Forcing a Chinese company to sell TikTok won’t solve the biggest problem with #TikTok: the fact that so people get their “#news” from platforms that are designed to hijack attention for commercial gain, not to deliver reliable information.
If China wants information on Americans, it can buy data from companies since there are no effective #privacy laws.
And American-owned Facebook and X have shown themselves to be as bad or worse as TikTok at spreading #misinformation.
#TRUMP, 2020: I hereby sign an executive order banning #TikTok in 45 days if it isn't sold, given threat posed by China. (The order gets blocked in court.)
TRUMP, 2024: "Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok."
I feel like the reason #Mastodon, and the #Fediverse at large, aren't taking off has to do with the fact that they're actually social networks. People don't seem to want a social network, they want content platforms. People aren't using #Twitter or #Threads or #TikTok to keep up with their friends these days, they're using these apps to entertain themselves. And since #Facebook and every other platform that used to be a social network began pivoting toward content promotion, I think society has forgotten what a social network is supposed to actually be anymore.
"Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of #TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job posting looking for an “AI editor” expects “output of 200 to 250 articles per week.” #ChatGPT is being used to generate whole spam sites. #Etsy is flooded with “AI-generated junk.” Chatbots cite one another in a misinformation ouroboros. 1/2
“China doesn’t need #TikTok to collect data about Americans.
“The Chinese government can buy all the data it wants from data brokers because the U.S. has no federal data privacy laws to speak of.
“The fact that China, a country that Americans criticize for its authoritarian practices, bans social media platforms is hardly a reason for the U.S. to do the same.”
Attal annonce le déploiement de l'armée pour sécuriser ports et aéroport de Nouvelle-Calédonie, un classique de l'occupation coloniale et… l'interdiction de Tik Tok sur l'île. Probablement pour tenter de contrer les fake news ou considérées comme telles par le gouvernement. Décidément, la censure des réseaux sociaux c’est une obsession...
Wenn #SocialMedia zu Social Selling wird, dann ist da gar nichts mehr "Social" dran, wie diese Content-Farm in Indonesien zeigt!
Wie der Like Button das Internet zerstoert, das habe ich vor einiger Zeit hier 👉 https://t.ly/LikeButton ausgefuehrt. Die im Video gezeigten Beispiele sind wirklich nur die Spitze des Eisbergs.
Ramsch-Shops wie #Shein, #Temu, & #Wish haben diese Form des Vertriebs perfektioniert. Alle aus #China & selbstverstaendlich ist der Hauptdistributionskanal #TikTok
“Our privacy will be better protected if an American company owns #TikTok so this is good!”
I don’t know about you but American companies will give my #abortion data to the cops in a Republican-controlled state. I don’t have to worry about China or the CCP doing that. Your threat model is bad and you should feel bad.
🚨🎬 Privacy Concerns about Apple Push Notifications
TL;DR: data-hungry apps use push notifications as a trigger to send app analytics and device information to their remote servers, even if the apps aren't running at all on your iPhone. Such apps include TikTok, Facebook, FB Messenger, Instagram, Threads, X, and many more.
The European Commission has sent formal requests for information to YouTube and TikTok on the firms' child protection obligations. Commissioner Thierry Breton had said that child protection is an "enforcement priority."
The move comes as the EU works to rein in tech giants after the passing of the Digital Services Act (DSA), which came into effect in August.
Was für eine Schande. Der erfolgreiche Pilotversuch des @EDPS, für Europäische Institutionen im #Fediverse#Mastodon und #PeerTube Instanzen zu betreiben, wird in weniger als einem Monat enden.
Die Europäische Kommission unter von der Leyen (CDU / EVP) hat offensichtlich kein Interesse daran, überwachungsarme, europäische Plattformen und damit freien demokratischen Diskurs zu fördern. Morgen wird sie sicher wieder irgendwas zu #TikTok und #Souveränität und so heucheln.