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I don't think Twitter could afford to lose money with Vines for very long.

The CCP can afford to lose money with TikTok for a long time. Straight from the propaganda budget really.

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Can afford to lose money for a long time — IIRC this is called “long term planning” …

I have yet to see a single CCP propaganda video on TikTok. What exactly are you seeing?

They aren’t showing propaganda videos, they are filtering out what makes them look bad and emphasizing what makes them look good.

Update: here’s a reference to leaked documents to this effect: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/...

Just like Youtube scrapped from its search results the full version of that July presidential town hall video because it was not looking so good.

Ah ok. That makes lots of sense.

CCP propaganda won’t be a red flying with people chanting “China is great!” It will be something like “masks aren’t effective” to increase the impact of COVID on America.

All the videos I see on TikTok regarding COVID are all pro-mask/pro-vax/pro-science. I can see how others will be led down a different path though. Not sure it's intentional so much as showing people what they want to see, and I don't see how it's any different than, say, YouTube where one can also go down a rabbit hole and get stuck there.

And yet if you walk across the aisle, you will hear people saying the opposite: CCP propaganda is something like "vaccines are effective" to increase the microchip coverage, or whatever.

Isn't that what I said? People have vaccine hesitancy because of propaganda from other countries undermining confidence in the government.

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