TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill

Damn you … I shot coffee out my nose with that. 😂

Comes in flavours, likkok orange, and likkok red.

Before it was a vague sinophobic conspiracy theory pushed by big tech and other fascists... Now it's a reality.

It wasn't always purely right wing propaganda, they want it full right wint propaganda,

Yeah I thought this deal happened months ago. I guess now they're being public about it.

I’m pretty active on there and my entire feed is academic and thoughtful left-leaning commentary. Granted I had to work at curating it. Day one was all thirst traps. But now I really enjoy it. I will actually be sad when it becomes unusable.

Dude Facebook hasn't been cool in a decade and it's still very much a thing

You're underestimating the propaganda machine . All those right-wing influencers didn't get to the top of every chart because young people decided them to be popular.

Hopefully someone spins up a competitor

Done and done.

• https://pixelfed.social/
• https://loops.video/

Wouldn't it be cool if people used loops instead!

You have to use words like "unalive" and it's still popular?

if you fuck it up they will bail for another platform

They might also start using another platform. But they’re unlikely to leave completely.

Cory Doctorow put out the first hour of the audiobook on Enshittification for free, and it covers this very well.

True for us 1%ers, nobody else seems to give a fuck.

"you sweet, summer child"

First and foremost: That is not what this is about. Well, that isn't what the sane parts of this is about. It isn't that tiktok is too popular.

It is that it is very blatantly a tool of the CCP. Much like facebook and twitter are tools of the US government. There are many articles documenting how facebook has been used to steal elections and... fuel coups. And musk et al are pretty open that they did the same with twitter and the 2024 US Presidential election. And... it is hard to not be suspicious when "tiktok is the only streaming platform that is willing to talk about the genocide in Palestine" and "I refuse to vote for genocide, full stop" were so tightly coupled.

No country should allow such blatant manipulation of its people by a foreign nation. Whether it is the US, Russia (see: RT getting banned the fuck out of most western nations), China, or even frigging Mauritius.

Second... Do you really think People have that much agency? Not individuals, but People.

Oh it's been working for GovCo and Israel since it came back from the 1 day ban and Chou started licking Chumps ass. The change was immediate and noticeable.

It will actually be for both! Emphasis on the part of the article where it says China will still have a stake of 20% in the company, AND they get to keep the algorithm.

All the US is doing is buying up physical assets and infrastructure, and the user base. The juicy bits they wanted, they didn't get. Everyone is likely going to jump off of TikTok the moment it comes time to segment the US market from the Rest of the World. China doesn't have to do a thing because Douyin is already maintained separately for the Chinese market.

Let's be real. They're all working together.

Now it will be overt instead of a vague conspiracy.

Now it will be for the US fascists instead of chinese fascists, Nazis were german.

*An official letter, signed by at least three colleagues.

Schmuck Schumer is hard at work, editing his last one, so we don't think it's the same one.

Jokes on him, nobody is paying any attention to him anyway. He could give the same speech every time, and nobody would even notice.

What a loser. If we aren't going to kick him out, just ignore him, and let him get back to his insider trading. That's his only priority anyway. He might as well be a MAGA.

If we're lucky they'll do something that speaks to the youth, like doing Tiktok dances in protest

And they will even threaten to wag their fingers!

Chat GPT, I need a sternly worded letter please.

Oh words many sternly worded words in a letter.

I don't mean a letter with words on it, I mean I want to tell a group of people things so I want to write those ideas down on paper in a sternly way..

No I'm not angry! You know what? I'm just gonna do this by myself!

Voters made sure they can't do anything else.

Like the backpedaling of Trump's T1 phone to initially be claimed as "Made in America" until being publicly called out, not only by inquisitive people but also by a company furthest along in producing a fully "Made in USA" phone. The T1 phone marketing has been relegated to featuring a "proudly American" design.

::: spoiler Sources

• USA Today: Trump Mobile reiterates claims that new phones are 'made in America'
• Bloomberg: US-Made Smartphones Cheaper Than Some Claim: Purism CEO :::

Kind of sad that you have to root for a fascist dictator prick to keep the fascist wannabe dictator prick in check.

Thanks for posting that. I was looking for confirmation or debunk and this adds some clarity.

Asked about final control of the app’s algorithm — a central question in the legality of any deal — he said that was “being worked out” and that American investors are “going to have control over it.

I wonder if they'll actually sell the code source... that would be surprising. The best they'll get may be just a compiled version they can't do anything with.

Yeah but uncensored brainrot is still better than propaganda brainrot.

One of the reasons tiktok became so popular is that it didn't go around banning entire swaths of content under the guise of "healthy content" like Facebook (Insta), X, and Reddit do.

This isn't even a Trump issue specifically, Biden wanted TIkTok to do the same. Either follow policy demands or sell to an American owner.

The crackdown on the left is just beginning

lol bruh the state erased the left like 80 years ago.

A lot of us are too poor to get out. Don't think Canada is taking political refugees just yet :/

I'm just hoping we don't get to the point where I feel compelled to leave.

In the meantime, I'm looking for parts of the world where I could live for an extended period of time in case the worst happens. I don't think we'll get there, but it's always good to have a backup plan.

There was never a left in USA, buddy.

Myself and most of my family are fleeing next week, and I’m still worried that this infection will spread to where we’re going. They want this to be global.

It’s like people forgot about that.

And the reason the Democrats and Republicans wanted to kill Tick Tock was Israel. Because we have an Israel first policy just because they have video footage of our lawmakers having sex with kids and their business Pals as well.

It is being sold to Larry Ellison, one of the biggest donors to Israel. So you bet TikTok is going to be filled with IDF thirst trap propaganda soon.

It's currently a propaganda refinery.

Ya when I learned the Chinese have a different algorithm for NA I automatically didn't trust it.

A lot more than America becomes fucked when tiktok becomes owned by these guys. It'll become their global platform to radicalize youth Nazis from one corner of the globe to another. Time to hope the youth outside America are smart enough to see thorough this, but if our recent Canadian election was any indication then they are not.

Nazi content is already insanely popular on tiktok. There is Minecraft edits with slogans like "take back the west" and a sonnenrad in the background getting millions of views. Nick Funetes an open Nazi does numbers.

The platform is a cesspit and can't get any worse.

It will lose its luster when there is a noticeable political slant.

Tiktok's popularity is already going downhill, so it checks out.

Ok, but didn't they buy Myspace when it was already getting less popular and a lot of people had switched to Facebook?

Well you had to ask, right? Not anymore.

Betteridge you bastard how dare you fail me like this

Not the guy with the hole in his neck.

Either Tucker Carlson or Alex Jones, whoever doesn't get shot

The US... Self contained..

I read that US users will have to download a whole new app so I’m guessing anyone outside the US that keeps the current one won’t be affected.

Don't underestimate the stupidity and calcification of tiktok users, they'll just stick around having never heard of the sale. They won't even question why their feed is now a nonstop loop of Kirk clips.

What? I'm not sure how it is in the US but in many countries zoomers (men) are very right wing. These are the guys that watch rogan and Andrew Tate.

All these kids and their tikkity toks and instant grams

@sp3ctr4l @vegeta look how many people still use Twitter.

And that was literally the Chinese government who made that call. Not even really to do with the US law change or anything. They were throwing a tantrum and it came with an added bonus of "censorship".

Is that z as in Zionism or gen-z or ruzzia? Or a little bit of all

It's pretty useful to own all the media though. Which the right wing do in fact own.

The future is navigating through a variety of fascist apps trying to avoid various camps.