Tiktok Alters Algorithm to appease Donny Boy's fragile ego

I posted about this in the Tik Tok thread ... they are now blocking anti Trump search terms in North America (but they still get results elsewhere)... it has be a move under the well understood principal of, "If you say nice things about the president, he'll ignore the law to do you favors".

 

George Orwell says hello and " I told you so"

 

Why am I not surprised? It's an implicit quid pro quo between Donny and Byte Dance. In exchange for disallowing derogatory search results Trump will continue to defer implementation of the legislation banning the platform.

 

One of the most interesting things about this to me is that :

REPUBLICANS AND TRUMP SUPPORTERS DON'T CARE!!


It's as simple as that. They don't give a shit.

So a US President apparently has a flagrant and criminal quid pro quo with one of the largest media sites in the world, in order to literally further false narratives? One would think that this is literally about as unacceptable a situation as possible. But they don't care.

There is apparently no criminality that Republicans and Trump supporters won't accept. (Or maybe we just haven't found it yet.)

 

Instagram also seems to have made some changes.
Remember when the interwebs were free and fun? LOL

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
John Dalberg-Acton. 1887

 

While I have no real desire to see TikTok stick around, the sudden concern about what you see on social media being manipulated for political reasons is, let’s say, entertaining.

 

I wasn’t talking about misinformation. I was sarcastically noting that major social media networks suppressing content that is unfavorable to their favored politicians is nothing new, the only new thing is the favored politician being a Republican.

Folks on the right have been complaining for years about social media making posts unfavorable to Democrats (including at times entire actual news stories) disappear - heck, it was half of Elon’s explanation for why he was buying Twitter.

 

Sudden?

 

See post above. Was having a chuckle at Democrat supporters suddenly being concerned that social media networks are hiding unfavorable political stories.

 

No, the one where social media sites blocked links to reporting on the laptop because of supposed concerns the laptop itself might supposedly be Russian disinformation, no evidence to suggest that the laptop was Russian disinformation ever came forth, and then federal prosecutors ultimately wound up calling an FBI agent to testify that the very same laptop was authentic and using emails from it as proof of Hunter Biden’s drug use in their successful prosecution of him on gun charges that his dad later pardoned him of. That laptop.

 

I found your post to be very informative. However, I cannot distinguish what words are yours and what words you copied and pasted. Please use quotations so that we can understand what words you have copied and pasted.

 

I don’t blame TikTok. They are fighting for their lives. If sucking up to Donnie works for them then it’s a tactic.

 

You have put that on my posts before. Here is the format. People put their comments above the link… and the information under the link is from the link. The …… break in the middle means he skipped some paragraphs in the quote. Glad to help.

 

To be fair though.....

....if Trump, Republicans, and the right don't want to risk having important stories to them be viewed by a concerned media as possible Russian disinformation.....

.....then they shouldn't either collude with Russia, or welcome Russian disinformation.

Or both, as the Trump campaign did.*





* If your memory slips, or you disagree, please look up Senate Intelligence Committee findings on Trump campaign collusion with Russia, in order to remember that Republican Senators consider that to be fact.