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Whatever the platform's intent, the end result is that I get to see content that is censored on other platforms. If China's foreign policy goal is to help the Palestinians, then they're aligned with my views.

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Worth considering that’s not all they’ll steer at you, and considering if you’d know it was happening.

Whatever they're doing is super benign compared to the propaganda I'm exposed to day in and day out as a US citizen with nearly every media outlet working to influence me either commercially or jingoistically. A single media platform with a different point of view is healthy, especially when it will host content the other platforms censor.

Social networking hasn't influenced my point of view, but it has allowed me to access voices that I've always wanted to hear from, there was just no way to get to them before.

There is a significant amount of research and public intelligence community discussion to indicate your points are incredibly misguided. Social networks have very likely influenced your point of view. Try spending a month off them and see if your views change, for instance.

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