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    Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok

    Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok.

    The campaign includes placing op-eds and letters to the editor in major regional news outlets, promoting dubious stories about alleged TikTok trends that actually originated on Facebook, and pushing to draw political reporters and local politicians into helping take down its biggest competitor.

    Employees with the firm, Targeted Victory, worked to undermine TikTok through a nationwide media and lobbying campaign portraying the fast-growing app, owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance, as a danger to American children and society, according to internal emails shared with The Washington Post.

    https://archive.is/HeiRJ

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    • Fuck You Zuck and Fuck Off TikTokutopian
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    What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet

    https://archive.is/BwJtl

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    • This is basically the USA caving to China's view of the world where every country chooses to ban certain apps and websites based on politics.yuekit
    • Didn't China ban our socials?

      fuck'em ban that shit      YakuZoku
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    • @yuekit, You could make that argument if china didn't have it both ways. Plus, do you want 'China's view of the world' to control the algorithm?hotroddy
    • if you're advocating for standing up against authoritarianism, it's contradictory to oppose Musk's anti-authoritarian gov't stance (brazil, australia, etc)hotroddy
    • USA isn't prohibiting tiktok from operating unlike FB in China.hotroddy
    • There isn't actually any evidence I've seen that TikTok is spreading China's view of the world. It's all just theoretical hysteria by boomer politicians.yuekit
    • https://www.techdirt…yuekit
    • And Elon Musk is not really a supporter of free speech unfortunately. Look at how he got the Texas attorney general to investigate Media Matters after theyyuekit
    • criticized him. He's also very servile towards China for obvious reasons, so his public opposition to the TikTok ban should probably be seen in that light.yuekit
    • The idea Musk is anti-authoritarian is hilarious and you'd have to be pretty stupid to believe it.i_monk
    • Yeah think about it... he supports Ron DeSantis... Bolsonaro.. and the CCP!yuekit
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