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I’d like more transparency and investigation and journalistic focus on TikTok and how it’s encouraging extremism by amplifying some topics and viewpoints above others, creating the kind of societal chaos we see in American universities right now. I’m less concerned about laughable militias and more about mass propagandizing by the CCP.

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Haven't you seen what most polarizing lowest forms of garbage content facebook algorithm serves?

It's so much worse than tiktok.

Putin and CCP intelligence services are all over Facebook and other social media platforms[1]. This is a concerted effort across every possible avenue. It's not about Israel-Palestine per se, it's about trying to maximize every possible domestic division, whether it's White nationalism or Black nationalism or 5g or antivax conspiracy theories. Anything that creates division and chaos. The US and the free world is so strong the only thing that can defeat it is itself.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook...

Societal chaos? Sometimes I wonder if those who comment these things, you know, touch grass.

The downvotes to your comment illustrate how deep the rot perpetuated by XCCP, IRGC, FSB, Qataris, etc has gone.

Not to say concern about domestically originating extremism isn’t warranted, but, if you’re downvoting a comment on “I’m most concerned about sources of social influence from the most regressive governments on earth”, you’ve got some serious bias

I would say the downvotes come because 1) they are changing the subject 2) student protesters are far less dangerous than far right militias and 3) it’s a lot easier to relate to anti-Palestinean genocide protestors than to people who claim there is a white genocide and 4) if a divided populace implies intent on the part of the app developers, Facebook is at least as culpable. TikTok didn’t invent filter bubbles.

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